Meaning of Couching | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of one who couches.
2. An early, largely obsolete, method of treating a cataract by using a sharp object to displace the opaque lens in the eye.
3. Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

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“Couching involves transferring the sheet of paper from the mould to the felt.”

“[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, 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.”

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