The absence of a natural (crystalline) or artificial lens.
A person who has no lens inside their eye (whether their own or an artificial one) is aphakic.
The status of an eye that has had the lens removed surgically for cataract or lost through injury and has had no replacement lens implanted.
when an eye has no crystalline lens
A condition of the eye after the crystalline lens has been removed because of cataract opacities. Usually possible to insert an intraocular lens into the eye to compensate for lens removal.
absence of the crystalline lens of the eye.
Absence of the lens, usually because of cataract extraction.
The condition of an eye without the crystalline lens in the path of incident light. Usually lens removal in cataract surgery, but also can be cause by luxation of the lens. Loss of lens adds more than +10.00D hyperopia to the eye.
Absence of the human lens.
Without a crystalline lens.(as in after cataract surgery)
absence of lens after cataract removal.
Aphakia is the absence of the lens of the eye, due to surgical removal, perforating wound or ulcer, or congenital anomaly; causes a loss of accommodation, hyperopia, and a deep anterior chamber. Complications include detachment of the vitreous or retina, and glaucoma.