| ECCE | extracapsular cataract extraction |
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| ICCE | intracapsular cataract extraction |
| Phaco | lens phacoemulsification [ophthalmic cataract surgery] |
| PSC | patient services coordination; Porter-Silber chromogen; posterior subcapsular cataract; primary scle... |
| SMCA | smooth muscle contracting agent; suckling mouse cataract agent |
| hard cataract | A cataract involving the nucleus. Synonym: hard cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| progeria with cataract | A syndrome of bony anomalies of the calvaria, face, and jaw, with brachygnathia, narrow curved nose, and multiple ocular defects including microphthalmia, microcornea, and cataract, often with alopecia overlying skull sutures, or alopecia areata and hypoplasia, or absence of eyebrows. The pattern of inheritance is undecided. Synonym: congenital sutural alopecia, Hallermann-Streiff syndrome, Hallermann-Streiff-Francois syndrome, mandibulo-oculofacial syndrome, oculomandibulodyscephaly, oculomandibulofacial syndrome, progeria with cataract, progeria with microphthalmia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| progressive cataract | A cataract in which the opacification process progresses to involve the entire lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saucer-shaped cataract | A common form of senile cataract often confined to a region just within the posterior capsule. Synonym: saucer-shaped cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary cataract | A cataract that accompanies or follows some other eye disease such as uveitis. Synonym: complicated cataract. A cataract occurring in the retained lens or capsule after a cataract extraction. Synonym: aftercataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sedimentary cataract | A hypermature cataract in which the nucleus gravitates within the capsule. Synonym: sedimentary cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hook-shaped cataract | Congenital cataract with hook-like figures between the foetal and embryonic nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| punctate cataract | An incomplete cataract in which there are opaque dots scattered through the lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile cataract | A cataract occurring spontaneously in the elderly; mainly a cuneiform cataract, nuclear cataract, or posterior subcapsular cataract, alone or in combination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pyramidal cataract | A cone-shaped, anterior polar cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| siderotic cataract | A cataract resulting from deposition of iron from an iron-containing intraocular foreign body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypermature cataract | A cataract in which the lens cortex becomes liquid, with the nucleus gravitating within the capsule (Morgagni's cataract). Synonym: overripe cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypocalcaemic cataract | <ophthalmology> A cataract occurring with low serum calcium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soft cataract | <ophthalmology> An advanced or mature cataract in which the nucleus is not well developed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spindle cataract | A cataract in which the opacity is fusiform, extending from one pole to the other. Synonym: fusiform cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |