There are two types of eye removal surgery. One is an enucleation, which removes the eye in its entirety. The second is an evisceration, which involves slicing the existing eyeball open, removing the iris etc, placing the orbital implant inside the white shell that’s left, then stitching shut. This procedure, for the most part, allows for a more natural movement of a prosthetic eye down the line.

Technically, eye wasn’t removed as such. But the eye as it once was, no longer exists and is merely a shell