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clouding of the natural lens of the eyeMuch more rarely, cataract can reference falling water as from a waterfall or series of rapids and waterfalls.
- My grandmother is getting cataract surgery.
cataract = clouding of the natural lens of the eye
- I'm no longer cold or aching, or hunched over or deformed, or almost blind with cataract eyes.Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook
- Have you ever bathed in a mountain river that is running in shallow cataracts over red and blue and yellow stones with the sun on it?C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew
- And then she forgot everything else, because Aslan himself was coming, leaping down from cliff to cliff like a living cataract of power and beauty.C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle
- The cortisone they took led to cataracts, diabetes, hip fractures, and other side effects.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- I had an operation on my eyes yesterday for cataracts.James McBride -- The Color of Water
- Reckon we're in Cataract Canyon.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- A great cataract of flounces rolled down from the young lady's waist to Newman's feet; he had to step aside to avoid treading upon them.Henry James -- The American
- His eyes were hazy and nearly vacant, the eyes of an old man stricken with cataracts.Stephen King -- Cujo
- His eyes, going gray with cataracts, seemed to see through me.Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
- Then I heard the cataract of talk, which I knew he engendered; that was what Sunday at Mingo began with.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- As though she'd contracted an advanced case of cataracts.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- "Now just suppose," he said, "we were on our way up the Nile to the first cataract, sailing in a dahabiyeh.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- When I lowered my arms to look again, Martin's head had turned in my direction, one cataract eye wheeling crazily before fixing, it seemed, on me.Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- The boat was leaning, the water was sliced sharply and fell away in green cascades, in bubbles, in cataracts.Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
- Cataracts were slowly obscuring Stefan's eyes; the disease had cost him half a finger and his last job.Junot Diaz -- Drown
- Teacher Pan had cataracts and worried that soon he would not be able to paint anymore.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Some survivors — even children — were developing what were called A-bomb cataracts.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- His eye managed to twinkle through the veil of cataracts.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- The sound began to assume that of a mighty cataract.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
cataract = clouding of the natural lens of the eye
cataracts = waterfalls or rapids
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