cataracta

The Latin term cataracta (also catarracta and catarractes) is applied to a disease of the eyes by Gregory of Tours (Hist.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

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But in all these writers cataracta seems to be included under the general term pannus, meaning opacities of every kind.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

"Ungula, egilops, cataracta and macula are species of pannus, all arising from the same causes and cured by the same treatment."

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Basil and the lxx. may be assumed to mean prison, from the notion of the barred grating over the door.cf. Ducange s.v. cataracta.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Halic.viii. 67, in the same sense as the Latin cataracta (Livy xxvii. 27) a portcullis.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

(cataracta) was first located in the lens by Francois Quarré and Remi

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

"_In uvea sunt largitas et constrictio et aqua sive cataracta ....

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson