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cataract /ˈkatərakt/
▶noun
- 1 a large waterfall.
- 2 a medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes progressively opaque, resulting in blurred vision.
– origin ME: from L. cataracta ‘waterfall, floodgate’, also ‘portcullis’, from Gk kataraktēs ‘down-rushing’.
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