Cataracts Sentence Examples

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  • The rivers of Africa are generally obstructed either by bars at their mouths or by cataracts at no great distance up-stream.

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  • Cataracts are treated with increasing success by implant surgery.

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  • On some of these channels deep gorges were eroded heading in temporary cataracts which exceeded Niagara in height but not in breadth; the pools excavated by the plunging waters at the head of the gorges are now occupied by little lakes.

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  • But just before reaching the Uaupes there is a long series of reefs, over which it violently flows in cataracts, rapids and whirlpools.

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  • Charged with all this matter, the Semliki, as it emerges from the region of forest and cataracts (in which, often closely confined by its mountain barriers, the stream is deep and rapid), becomes sluggish, its slope flattens out, and its waters, unable to carry their burden, deposit much of it upon the land.

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  • The "cascades" are wonderful formations like foaming cataracts caught in mid-air and transformed into milk-white or amber alabaster.

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  • Below Stora Lule lake the river forms the Harsprang (hare's leap; Njuommelsaska of the Lapps), the largest and one of the finest cataracts in Europe.

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  • Through these, the river carves its channel, broken into cataracts and rapids, or cachoeiras, as they are called throughout Brazil.

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  • The lower Arinos, the Alto Tapajos and the Tapajos to the last rapid, the Maranhao Grande, is a continuous series of formidable cataracts and rapids; but from the Maranhao Grande to its mouth, about 188 m., the river can be navigated by large vessels.

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  • San Antonio is the first of a formidable series of cataracts and rapids, nineteen in number, which, for a river distance of 263 m., obstruct the upper course of the Madeira until the last rapid called Guajara Merim (or Small Pebble), is reached, a little below the union of the Guapore with the Mamore.

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  • The rivers of the narrow mountainous peninsulas form many rapids and cataracts; as the Tondano, draining the lake of the same name to the north-west coast of Minahassa at Menado; the Rano-i-Apo, flowing over the plateau of Mongondo to the Gulf of Amurang; the Poigar, issuing from a little-known lake of that plateau; the Lombagin, traversing narrow canons; and the river of Boni, which has its outfall in the plain of Gorontalo, near the mouth of the Bolango or Tapa, the latter connected by a canal with the Lake of Limbotto.

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  • Every year, around 120,000 people in the UK have surgery to remove cataracts - around 4,000 of them in the Eastern region.

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  • There are no drops or tablets that will treat cataracts.

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  • Cats tend to develop cataracts at an older age than dogs.

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  • It also contributes to sunburns and cataracts.

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  • Jules Crevaux, who descended it, describes it as full of obstacles to navigation, the current very strong and the stream frequently interrupted by rapids and cataracts.

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  • However, infantile cataracts are often inherited and often these children have slightly smaller eyes than usual.

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  • The most common type of cataracts is age-related cataract.

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  • They also supersede other fruits in the antioxidant lutein, which, in studies has shown to protect people from cataracts.

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  • About 1894 a party of coolies from Macao who had been working on the railway in the cataracts region endeavoured to return home overland.

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  • The juvenile or developmental " retriever cataracts " can be diagnosed at six to eighteen months of age.

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  • In places the River Inn squeezes through tight gorges, wild and foaming in cataracts as a fine white-water river.

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  • Eyes-Your baby's eyes will examined, specifically to look for the presence of cataracts or any other eye problems.

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  • This can lead to cell dysfunction and eventually to health problems that are generally associated with aging, such as cancer, heart disease, cataracts, and diabetes.

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  • Some Labs are susceptible to eye problems, such as cataracts, progressive retinal atrophy and retinal dysplasia.

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  • The accommodative intraocular lens, or IOL, procedure is a new option for those with cataracts or for those who suffer from presbyopia which results in the need for glasses or bifocals to read.

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  • Over time, this can cause cataracts and retina damage that is not easily reversed.

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  • Fortunately, cataracts can be removed and vision restored in the majority of patients if other significant ocular diseases do not exist.

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  • For cataracts, pinguecula, pterygia, headaches and wrinkling, the best advice is to avoid chronic or overexposure to UV rays or to wear the appropriate protection when under these conditions.

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  • Up until the past few years, this process was only used for patients who suffered from cataracts.

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  • It is your responsibility as the parent to understand that children's eyes are susceptible to UV damage, which can lead to everything from painful yet easily healed surface burns to irreversible cataracts.

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  • At the ferry on the Malatia-Kharput road (cuneiform inscription) it flows eastwards in a valley about a quarter of a mile wide, but soon afterwards enters a remarkable gorge, and forces its way through Mount Taurus in a succession of rapids and cataracts.

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  • In this section of the river there occurs a continuous series of slight falls and rapids, including all the historical "six cataracts," beginning below Khartum and terminating at Philae.

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  • It was owing to their incessant raids that Diocletian withdrew the Roman garrisons above the cataracts, and called in the warlike Nobatae to protect the Egyptian frontier from their attacks.

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  • If, on the one hand, huge stones are transported hundreds of miles from sea-shore or river-bed where, in the lapse of long centuries, waves and cataracts have hammered them into strange shapes, and if the harmonizing of their various colors and the adjustment of their forms to environment are studied with profound subtlety, so the training and tending of the trees and shrubs that keep them company require much taste and much toil.

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  • This alpine region sends out numerous rivers in a southerly direction, which, forcing their passage through narrow defiles, and precipitated in cataracts over the precipices, eventually pour themselves into the Brahmaputra.

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  • Many of the Egyptian rocks in the desert areas and at the cataracts are coated with a highly polished film, of almost microscopic thinness, consisting chiefly of oxides of iron and manganese with salts of magnesia and lime.

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  • The Cogon, Fatallah and Konkure are all large rivers which descend from the plateaus through deep, narrow valleys in rapids and cataracts, and are only navigable for a few miles from their mouth.

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  • These rivers are navigable for short distances, but in general rapids or cataracts mark their middle courses.

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  • The lower Congo and coast regions are occupied by the Ba-Kongo (otherwise Ba-Fiot), a division including the Mushi-Kongo, found chiefly in the Congo division of Angola, and the Basundi, who live on both banks of the river in the cataracts districts, the Kabinda and the Mayumbe - the two last named dwelling in the coast districts and foot-hills immediately north of the mouth of the Congo.

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  • Above Nyangwe, on the main stream, another railway is built around the next series of cataracts, thus opening to through communication the upper Lualaba.

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  • Just below this the mountains close in on either side of the Maranon, forming narrows or pongos for a length of 35 m., where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than thirty-five formidable rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which La Condamine embarked in the t8th century to descend the Amazon.

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  • The inferior zone of the river, as far up as the first fall, the Porteira, has but little broken water and is low and swampy; but above the long series of cataracts and rapids the character and aspect of the valley completely change, and the climate is much better.

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  • The eastern rivers cut their way through the ramparts of the high land by magnificent gorges amidst dense forest, and descend by a succession of rapids and cataracts.

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  • There are few good harbours, Port 1 It was supposed to be indicated by the line which, according to the Turkish firman of 1841, describes a semicircle from the Siwa Oasis to Wadai, approaching the Nile between the Second and Third Cataracts.

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  • These two rivers have emptied a large system of lakes, which in pre-Glacial times occupied the eastern zone, thus forming a region suitable for colonization in the broad valleys and hollows, where the rivers, as in the case with those in the north, cut through the Andes by narrow gaps, forming cataracts and rapids between the snowy peaks.

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  • Doctor, is it right that taking an aspirin a day prevents cataracts?

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  • With the help of these children, I found five blind people, three with operable cataracts.

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  • Have a complete eye examination so that your ophthalmologist or optometrist can rule out cataracts or night myopia.

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  • The sun can cause vision problems like cataracts and glaucoma.

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  • Exposure to UV rays can also cause cataracts; the clouding of the eye's natural lens.

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  • Proper eye protection helps prevent cataracts and can keep runners more comfortable, helping them race to the finish line and see their victory clearly.

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  • That's because the effects of cataracts and other eye conditions can cause an exacerbated glare while driving at night.

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  • Even worse is the permanent retina scarring and cataracts that result from ultraviolet damage.

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  • Cataracts can form as a result of prolonged UV exposure.

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  • They also cause premature skin aging, cataracts, glaucoma-even damage to hair.

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  • Since we know that direct UV light causes numerous medical concerns, namely skin cancers, sunburn and cataracts, it makes sense to keep a little one's eyes as protected as possible.

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  • Exposure to high levels of ultraviolet light can cause many eye problems, including cataracts, photokeratitis (snow-blindness), pingueculae (an irritating growth), and pterygium (another type of growth).

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  • Cataracts can be treated with surgery, but it's best to do everything you can to avoid them.

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  • Cloudy areas on the lens of the eye (cataracts) frequently develop at an unusually early age.

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  • Cataracts. Children with Marfan are more likely to develop cataracts, and to develop them much earlier in life, sometimes as early as 40 years of age.

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  • Many other injuries are possible after an electric shock, including cataracts, kidney failure, and destruction of muscle tissue.

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  • Rubella causes severe birth defects (including heart defects, cataracts, deafness, and mental retardation) if a pregnant woman contracts it during the first three months of pregnancy.

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  • Eye problems including cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy also are more common in people with diabetes.

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  • The most common birth defects resulting from congenital rubella infection are eye defects such as cataracts, glaucoma, and blindness; deafness; congenital heart defects; and mental retardation.

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  • It may be responsible for sunburms, skins cancers, and cataracts in humans.

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  • If taken for a long period of time, prednisone may also lead to the development of eye cataracts and slow down the child's growth.

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  • Long-term side effects of radiation treatment can include cataracts, vision problems, bleeding from the retina, and decreased growth of the bones on the side of the head.

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  • The long-term side effects of this treatment can include cataracts and damage to the retina, which can lead to impaired vision.

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  • Cryotherapy is used in the treatment skin lesions, Parkinson's disease, some cancers, retinal detachment, and cataracts.

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  • Lens replacement surgery is available when cataracts develop.

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  • Patients may also have cataracts, drooping eyelids (ptosis), or corneal problems such as glaucoma.

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  • Nail-patella syndrome has also been associated with abnormalities of the cornea, cataracts, and astigmatism.

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  • The most common congenital defects are cataracts, heart disease, deafness, and mental retardation.

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  • So can extreme farsightedness, cataracts, eye injury, or having much better vision in one eye than the other.

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  • Steroids are the strongest class of asthma medications and can cause numerous side-effects, including bleeding from the stomach, loss of calcium from bones, cataracts in the eye, and a diabetes-like state.

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  • Continued feeding of milk products to the infant will lead to cirrhosis, cataracts, kidney failure, and mental retardation.

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  • Causes of induced myopia include cataracts and elevations of blood sugar in diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetics.

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  • Also, problems with vision may be a sign of a more serious ocular problem, such as cataracts, or of a medical problem, such as diabetes.

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  • Inflammation of the eye, increased dryness of the eye, and cataracts are some of the risks associated with refractive surgery.

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  • Long-term use of oral corticosteroids may cause more serious side effects, such as weight gain, cataracts, weakening bones, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, and easy bruising.

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  • Although cataracts are usually associated with older adults, between 4 and 12 percent of children with AD develop rapidly maturing cataracts that may begin to interfere with vision as early as age 20.

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  • In addition to followup visits with the pediatrician and allergist, the child should have regular eye examinations as a safeguard against cataracts or other eye complications.

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  • As people with Down syndrome age, they also have an increased chance of developing a number of other medical difficulties, including cataracts, thyroid problems, diabetes, and seizure disorders.

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  • Ultraviolet rays (UV) are an invisible form of radiation found in sunlight, and over-exposure to UV light can cause significant eye damage, resulting in a loss of vision, and the possible formation of cataracts.

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  • People with night blindness, macular degeneration and cataracts may find benefits in taking zinc as a supplement.

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  • It can help to protect the eyes from sustaining sun damage, may actually help to improve vision, and is capable of preventing clouding of the eyes, which is a precursor to cataracts.

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  • Vitamin C has been linked with the prevention of cataracts.

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  • Cataracts form when the protective mechanisms in the eye cannot protect it from free radical damage.

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  • Cataracts can be prevented by consuming foods rich in the antioxidant vitamins C and E.Vitamin C is also suggested for the prevention and treatment of chronic glaucoma due to its strong antioxidant properties.

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  • For example, it has been shown that a decreased risk of heart disease, certain cancers such as colon and breast, stroke, diverticulitis, cataracts, and macular degeneration are outcomes of eating plenty of fruits and vegetables.

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  • Eyes that spend too much time in the sun are in danger of cataracts too.

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