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Cataract
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the Lat. form cataracta of the Gr. KaTappfiKTl7s, a floodgate, or waterfall, properly something which rushes down), a downpour of water, a waterfall. The earliest use in English is of a floodgate or portcullis, and this survives in the name of a disease of the eye (see EYE: Eye Diseases), in which the crystalline lens becomes opaque, and forms an apparent grating over the eye. The term is also used of a device to regulate the strokes in certain types of steam-engine.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cataract'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cataract.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cataract'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cataract.html. 1910.
