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Mature Cataract

Mature cataract. Mature cataract. The pupillary aperture is white. The name ‘cataract' originates from the colour of the gushing waters at the waterfalls of the river Nile: the crystalline lens which was thought to consist of intraocular fluid has the same colour.

Picture: Paula Summanen / HUCH / Eye and Ear Hospital

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