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- Cataract - n. - A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
- Cataract - n. - An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.
- Cataract - n. - A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
- Cataractous - a. - Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.
- Reclination - n. - The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
- Keratonyxis - n. - The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.
- Cataractous - a. - Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.
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- G887 ἀχλύς - 887 ἀχλύς - ἈΧΛΎΣ - - achlýs - akh-looce' - of uncertain derivation; dimness of sight, i.e. (probably) a cataract:--mist. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H8400 תְּבַּלֻּל - 8400 תְּבַּלֻּל - תְּבַּלֻּל - - tᵉballul - teb-al-lool' - from בָּלַל in the original sense of flowing; a cataract (in the eye); blemish. - Noun Masculine - heb