[ UK /kˈætɐɹˌækt/ ]
[ US /ˈkætɝækt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice
  2. an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye
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How To Use cataract In A Sentence

  • When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes. Christianity Today
  • Fifteen years later he expanded and revised, not always accurately, his first brief report on the cataract.
  • Cataract patients also tend to be deficient in vitamin A and the carotenes, lutein and zeaxanthin.
  • But as the clouding progresses, the cataract eventually interferes with your vision.
  • It was a cavern in the side of a mountain, overshadowed with palm trees, at such a distance from the cataract that nothing more was heard than a gentle uniform murmur, such as composes the mind to pensive meditation, especially when it was assisted by the wind whistling among the branches. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  • Symptoms include near vision image blur, abnormal color perception, monocular diplopia, glare, and impaired visual acuity, and may vary depending on location of the cataract.
  • But what was remarkable in the lady was, that although her features were handsome, and upon the whole pleasing, the pupil of each eye was dimmed with the whiteness of cataract, and she was evidently stone-blind. The Purcell Papers
  • 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
  • A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.
  • Yes, besides eye cataracts, pterygium and pinguecula caused by the light of fluorescent bulbs. Unthreaded #15 « Climate Audit
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