couching (suomeksi)

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An act of couchVerb, couching.
(lb, en, ophthalmology) An early, largely obsolete, method of treating a cataract by using a sharp object to displace the opaque lens in the eye.
* (quote-book, author=Sanduk Ruit, authorlink=Sanduk Ruit, author2=Geoffrey C. Tabin, author3=Charles C. Wykoff, chapter=Cataract Surgery, title=Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision through Cataract Elimination, location=Washington, D.C., publisher=(w, American Public Health Association), year=2006, page=21, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-1HGyV7b0wC&lpg=PA21&dq=%22couching%22%20%22airplane%22&pg=PA21v=onepage&q=%22couching%22%20%22airplane%22&f=false, isbn=978-0-87553-067-3, passage=[C]ataract surgery has been employed for more than 20 centuries. The primary surgical technique for the large majority of this time was a procedure called '''''couching'''''. The first written description of '''couching''' is from an Indian surgeon, w:Sushruta, Susruta, circa 600 BC, involving the insertion of a needle into the eye and displacement of the lens out of the visual axis through either inferior or superior dislocation.)
(lb, en, textiles) embroider, Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.