cataract
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5.2
- noun
- /ˈkætəˌrækt/
- Specialized
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catarata
- As a result of aging, she developed a cataract that made her vision blurry.
- cataract surgery
- congenital cataracts
- subcapsular cataract
Does Castor oil help with cataracts and eye floaters?
- Does Castor oil help with cataracts and eye floaters?
- The next most common cause of vision loss is cataract.
- Either that or the Queen's cataracts had kicked in.
- Send an eye surgeon to remove Monet's cataracts.
- And so they did made a model of human cataract, adult versus childhood.
- Secondly, no control research has ever proven this link between sun exposure and cataract formation in the lens of your eye.
- She had a, she had a, her second cataract surgery.
- She would not perform the surgery because with the slim amount of vision I have left, the risk would be if she removed the cataracts, I'd lose everything.
- We get skin cancer, we get cataracts, the plants get sick, you know, lots of bad things.
Examples
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Her medical history included cataract surgery on the same eye 5 years earlier, with unsatisfactory vision postoperatively.
Academic text (2008) -
Three of those residents whose vision improved had undergone cataract extraction, which accounts for the improvement.
Academic text (1997) -
One eye has a cloud, the start of a cataract from too much sun.
Fiction book (1996) -
That is a type of cataract that is known to be caused more by exposure to UV light.
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She's got a bad back and cataracts in both eyes.
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I have cataracts, I don't see very well.
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The costs of cataract-related disability and cataract surgery now total $6 billion annually worldwide.
Academic text (2003) -
He has mature stage five cataracts in both eyes.
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For example, someone having cataracts has a visual impairment that may result in a reading disability.
Academic text (2001) -
She's ancient, with a mouthful of gold-capped teeth and cataract-clouded eyes.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
A clouding of the outer part of the lens of the eye that makes vision blurry
A cloudy area in the middle of the eye's lens that makes vision blurry
A cloudy area at the back of the eye lens that makes reading and seeing in bright light difficult
Compounds
- Specialized
2
3.7
An operation to remove the cloudy lens of the eye and replace it with an artificial lens to restore vision
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- Specialized
A clouding of the outer part of the lens of the eye that makes vision blurry
- Specialized
A cloudy area in the middle of the eye's lens that makes vision blurry
- Specialized
A cloudy area at the back of the eye lens that makes reading and seeing in bright light difficult
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cataract comes from the old word cataracta, which meant a rushing 'waterfall', because people thought the cloudy film over the eye looked like a curtain or stream hiding vision. So a cataract today is when the lens becomes cloudy and blocks or blurs sight.