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Couching (ophthalmology) "Couching for cataract"; Wellcome Collection illustration of Indian doctors performing the technique. Couching is the earliest documented form of cataract surgery. It involves dislodging the lens of the eye, thus removing the cloudiness caused by the cataract. Couching was a precursor to modern cataract surgery and pars ...
In 1753, Samuel Sharp performed the first-recorded surgical removal of the entire lens and lens capsule, equivalent to what became known as intracapsular cataract extraction. The lens was removed from the eye through a limbal incision. [1] At the beginning of the 20th century, the standard surgical procedure was intracapsular cataract ...
Charles Kelman. Charles David Kelman (May 23, 1930 – June 1, 2004) was an American ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, jazz musician, entertainer, and Broadway producer. Known as the father of phacoemulsification, [1] [2] he developed many of the medical devices, instruments, implant lenses and techniques used in cataract surgery.
Cataract surgery is the most common application of lens removal surgery, and is usually associated with lens replacement. It is used to remove the natural lens of the eye when it has developed a cataract, a cloudy area in the lens that causes visual impairment. [ 4][ 10] Cataracts usually develop slowly and can affect one or both eyes. [ 4]
Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist) Elisabeth Jane Wetherill, [2] August 16, 1916 to 19 March 2010. Sir Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley [1] [3] (10 July 1906 – 25 May 2001) was an English ophthalmologist who invented the intraocular lens and pioneered intraocular lens surgery for cataract patients. [4] [5] [6]
San Francisco, California, U.S. Alma mater. Hunter College ( B.A.) Howard University ( M.D.) Occupation (s) Ophthalmologist, humanitarian. Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post ...
Domestic cat with complete heterochromia. Eye color, specifically the color of the irises, is determined primarily by the concentration and distribution of melanin.Although the processes determining eye color are not fully understood, it is known that inherited eye color is determined by multiple genes.
D018918. [ edit on Wikidata] Phacoemulsification is a cataract surgery method in which the internal lens of the eye which has developed a cataract is emulsified with the tip of an ultrasonic handpiece and aspirated from the eye. Aspirated fluids are replaced with irrigation of balanced salt solution to maintain the volume of the anterior ...