Intraocular lens
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intraocular-lens-164-15527514
title:
Intraocular lens
text:
An Intraocular lens (IOL) is a lens implanted in the eye usually as part of a treatment for cataracts or for correcting other vision problems such as short sightedness and long sightedness; a form of refractive surgery. If the natural lens is left in the eye, the IOL is known as phakic, otherwise it is a pseudophakic lens. Both kinds of IOLs are designed to provide the same light-focusing function as the natural crystalline lens. This can be an alternative to LASIK, but LASIK is not an alternati
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description:
Lens implanted in the eye to treat cataracts or myopia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraocular_lens
date created:
2004-06-10T10:53:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T03:08:39Z
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