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OPTICAL IRIDECTOMY
Iridectomy performed for the purpose of improving vision by making an artificial pupil.
Peripheral iridectomy, in narrow-angle glaucoma, the surgical removal of a minute portion of the iris at its root; in intracapsularextraction of cataract, removal of one or more minute sections around the peripheral border, leaving the pupillary margin intact.
Synonym: buttonhole iridectomy, stenopeic iridectomy.
Sector iridectomy, an iridectomy in which a portion of the pupillary margin is excised.