The Collaborative International Dictionary
laser surgery \laser surgery\ n. (Med.) Surgery using lasers.
Wiktionary
n. Any surgery using a laser to cut tissue instead of a scalpel.
Wikipedia
Laser surgery is surgery using a laser (instead of a scalpel) to cut tissue. Examples include the use of a laser scalpel in otherwise conventional surgery, and soft-tissue laser surgery, in which the laser beam vaporizes soft tissue with high water content. Laser resurfacing is a technique in which covalent bonds of a material are dissolved by a laser, a technique invented by aesthetic plastic surgeon Thomas L Roberts, III using CO lasers in the 1990s. The CO (carbon dioxide) laser remains the gold standard for the soft tissue surgery because of the ease of simultaneous photo-thermal ablation and coagulation (and small blood capillary hemostasis).
Laser surgery is commonly used on the eye. Techniques used include LASIK, which is used to correct near and far-sightedness in vision, and photorefractive keratectomy, a procedure which permanently reshapes the cornea using an excimer laser to remove a small amount of tissue. Types of surgical lasers include carbon dioxide, argon, Nd:YAG laser, and Potassium titanyl phosphate.
Usage examples of "laser surgery".
Placing intravenous shunts in his external iliac artery and vein required minor laser surgery.
At the same time, I had laser surgery on my retinas and I had fingerprint grafts.
Indeed, the process started with natural tissue, whose genetic blueprint was then modified by radiation and laser surgery and chemistry.
Hydrogen bomb-driven X-ray lasers on orbiting battle stations will help perfect laser surgery, they told us.
But if we need laser surgery, if it's a high national priority, by all means let's allocate the funds to develop it.
Already it was pitted and dented with angry red and purple scars and would certainly require laser surgery if there was ever a hope of undoing years of damage.
They weren't in that much of a hurry, the laser surgery scheduled to take at least another hour.
That was two years ago, before she had laser surgery to thin her vocal cords and then her trachea shave.
Where the locking mechanism had been on the dura-steel plate was a still-smoking semicircular hole, its glowing edges carved as cleanly as if done by laser surgery.