aphakia

7 letters in word "aphakia": A A A H I K P.

No anagrams for aphakia found in this word list.

Words found within aphakia:

aa aah ah aha ai aia ha haik haika haka hap hi hip ka kai kapa kaph khi kip pa pah paik ph phi pi pia pika

• Definitions:
• A person who has no lens inside their eye (whether their own or an artificial one) is aphakic.
• (ay-FAY-kee-uh). Absence of the eye's crystalline lens, such as after cataract extraction.
• (apha·kia) (?-fa´ke-?) [a- 1 + phak- + -ia] absence of the lens of the eye; it may occur congenitally or from trauma, but is most commonly caused by extraction of a cataract.
• Absence of the crystalline lens following cataract surgery. A specialty GP contact lens is normally indicated.
• That condition where light from a single object point is focused as two separate focal lines.
• The status of an eye that has had the lens removed surgically for cataract or lost through injury and has had no replacement lens implanted.
• Absence of the eye's internal lens due to surgical removal of a cataract, and where extremely high prescription spectacles were worn to compensate. Seldom seen now due to lens implants.
• Without a crystalline lens.(as in after cataract surgery)
• absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts)
• Aphakia is the absence of the lens of the eye, due to surgical removal, perforating wound or ulcer, or congenital anomaly; causes a loss of accommodation, hyperopia, and a deep anterior chamber. Complications include detachment of the vitreous or retina, and glaucoma.

• aphagias ←
• aphagia ←
• aphaeretic ←
• aphakia
• → aphakias
• → aphanipterous
• → aphanite