Pseudophakia Health Dictionary

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n. the state of the eye after the natural lens has been replaced by a synthetic lens implanted inside the eye, approximately in the position previously occupied by the natural lens. This is the current form of surgery for *cataract. —pseudophakic adj.
Health Source: Oxford | Concise Colour Medical Dictionary
Author: Jonathan Law, Elizabeth Martin

Phakic

adj. denoting an eye with the natural crystalline lens still in place, as contrasted with aphakic (see aphakia) or pseudophakic (see pseudophakia).... phakic



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