Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Partaking of the nature of a cataract in the eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Of the nature of a
cataract in the eye. - adjective archaic Affected with cataract.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Above Pan's cataractous snoring, he could hear carts creaking to market, birds blowing the bugs out of their pipes, and monks marching to and fro in front of the shop, but he couldn't hear a peep from the Other Side.
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The crystalline lens may become cataractous and shrunken.
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Barkar 10.32 speaks of a piece of steel which penetrated through the cornea and lens, and which, five months later, was successfully removed by the extraction of the cataractous lens.
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Barkar speaks of a piece of steel which penetrated through the cornea and lens, and which, five months later, was successfully removed by the extraction of the cataractous lens.
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Additional processes of optical degradation of the aging and cataractous lens include protein aggregation leading to increased scattering of light
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Line Kessel et al. 2010
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Kantorow M, Kays T, Horwitz J, Huang Q, Sun J, et al. (1998) Differential display detects altered gene expression between cataractous and normal human lenses.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles He-Ge Chen et al. 2009
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