"EK" meaning in English

See EK in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: EKs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} EK (plural EKs)
  1. (medicine) Initialism of endothelial keratoplasty. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: endothelial keratoplasty Categories (topical): Medicine Derived forms: DSEK (english: Descemet's stripping endothelial keratoplasty), DSAEK (english: Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty), PDEK (english: pre-Descemet's endothelial keratoplasty)
    Sense id: en-EK-en-noun-DWJp8PXn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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