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👁️ Without eye lens 👁️ A person without lens
aphakic

aphakic

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Having no natural lens in the eye because of surgery or disease
  • adjective
  • /əˈfeɪkɪk/
  • Specialized
: afáquico
  • Many aphakic patients require specialized glasses to improve their vision.

Examples

  • After cataract surgery, she became aphakic and needed a new lens fitting.

  • Endothelial replacement surgery is an established procedure for aphakic and pseudophakic corneal edema and Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The doctor explained the challenges of living with aphakic conditions to the patients.

Surface Forms

aphakic positive

Morphology

aphakic = aphakia (opaque) = a + phak + ic

Formed from the privative 'a-' + the combining form 'phak-' (lens) plus the suffix '-ic'; since 'phak-' is not a standalone English word and the medical noun 'aphakia' is specialized, the connection is not apparent to general learners.

Etymology

Aphakic comes from the Greek parts a- 'without' and phakos 'lens', giving the image of a small 'lentil'. When an eye is described as aphakic, it means the eye is 'without' its natural lens and is affected by that condition.