Cataract

Definitions: Cataract

Cataract

Noun

1. Clouding of the natural lens of the eye.

2. A steep descent of the water of a river.

Date "cataract" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Cataract \Cat"a*ract\, noun. [Latin expression cataracta, catarracles, waterfall, Greek expression from to break down; in the passive, to fall or rush down (of tumors) to burst; kata` down to break.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	An opacity, partial or complete, of one or both eyes, on or in the lens or capsule, especially an opacity impairing vision or causing blindness. The many kinds of cataract are classified by their morphology (size, shape, location) or etiology (cause and time of occurrence). (references)
Medicine	A loss of transparency of the lens of the eye or of its capsule. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cataract

Synonyms: cascade (n), falls (n), waterfall (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
River	Water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Perfect Cataract Kaieteur (1918)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Cataract surgery (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cataract and Glaucoma for Eyecare Paraprofessionals (Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals) (reference) Cataract Surgery in Complicated Cases (reference) Cataract Surgery: The State of the Art (reference) Manual of Cataract Surgery (reference) Phacoemulsification, Laser Cataract Surgery and Foldable Iols (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Journal Of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (reference) Video Journal Of Cataract And Refractive Surgery - Video Cas (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cataract Creek.Credit: Unknown.		A scene as it might be viewed by a person with cataract. .Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.
	The health worker skillfully administers a local anaesthetic which will ensure ... cataract operation is painless. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by N. Willard..		In the ophthalmological hospital of Sitapur, India, up to 200 patients ... a day in the cataract season. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Satyan..
	The surgical instrument used here for a cataract operation ... is known as a cryoprobe ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen..		Instruments for Couching and the Extraction of the Cataract. / H. Anderson sc.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Instruments for cataract removal].Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Views in Arizona. Grand Canon, mouth of Cataract Creek, looking down.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Havasupai Indian school, Cataract Canyon.Credit: Library of Congress.		Falls of the Cataract Canon, Arizona.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He suffered the strange pangs of a conscience suddenly operated upon for the cataract.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		There are two primary ways to remove a cataract. (references)
		Today, cataract surgery is safe and very effective. (references)
		In its early stages, a cataract may not cause a problem. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Cataract" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.59% of the time. "Cataract" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.59%	65	41,645
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.47%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.47%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	1.47%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	68	N/A

Expressions using "cataract": capsular cataract ♦ cataract bird ♦ Cataract Extraction ♦ cataract lenses ♦ ergot cataract ♦ glass blower's cataract ♦ glass worker's cataract ♦ glassblower's cataract ♦ Hague cataract lamp ♦ iron puddler's cataract ♦ presenile cataract with flat dimness ♦ radiant energy cataract. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cataract": cataract-eyes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cataract"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ujëvarë (cascade, chute, fall, Linn, water power, waterfall), perde (albugo, cloak, coulisse, curtain, curtains, drape, drapery, mist, opacity, proscenium, purdah, screen, shroud, veil), katarakt (albugo). (various references)

Arabic		‏طوفان (cataclysm, deluge, downfall, flood), ‏السد إعتمام عدسة العين, ‏إعتام عدسة الصين, ‏شلال (chute, falls, waterfall). (various references)

Bulgarian		регулатор (comptroller, controller, governor, moderator, register, regulator, timer), катаракт, водопад (chute, fall, falls, waterfall), проливен дъжд (drench, drencher, pelt, pour, soaker), перде на очите, перде (curtain, drapery, mist, veil, walleye). (various references)

Chinese		白內障 , 翳眼 , 洪流 , 大瀑布. (various references)

Czech		vodopád (waterfall, water-fall), šedý zákal. (various references)

Danish		katarakt, kataract, graa staer, grå stær (cataracts). (various references)

Dutch		staar, grote waterval, cataract. (various references)

Esperanto		katarakto. (various references)

Faeroese		eygnastar. (various references)

Farsi		ابشاربزرگ . (various references)

Finnish		vesiputous (cascade, falls, waterfall), kaihi (glaucoma). (various references)

French		cataracte (cataracts). (various references)

German		katarakt (cataracts), grauer star, Wasserfall (cascade, fall, waterfall). (various references)

Greek		καταρράκτης (cascade, waterfall). (various references)

Hebrew		מפל מים (cascade, fall, waterfall), אש�" (cascade, chute, rapid, waterfall). (various references)

Hungarian		vízesés (cascade, chute, fall, falls, waterfall), zuhatag (cascade, chute, falls, race, rapid, rapids, torrent), hályog (scale). (various references)

Indonesian		penderasan (rapids), jeram (cold compress, rapids), air terjun (chute, waterfall). (various references)

Italian		cataratta (cataracts). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		白内障 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はくないしょう. (various references)

Korean		백내장. (various references)

Manx		lhieggey (bowl over, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, spill, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down), eas (cascade, chute, shoot, waterfall), bodjal sooilley. (various references)

Pig Latin		ataractcay

Portuguese		catarata (overfall, waterfall). (various references)

Romanian		cataractã (web eye), cascadã mare, potop (cataclysm, cloud, debacle, deluge, destruction, flood, flux, freshet, ravage, sea, stack, stream), albeaţã (albedo, wall eye, white). (various references)

Russian		катаракта. (various references)

Scottish		eas (a waterfall, cascade, waterfall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mrena na oku, katarakta. (various references)

Spanish		catarata (cataracts). (various references)

Swedish		stort vattenfall, grå starr. (various references)

Thai		น้ำตกที่สูงชัน, ต้อ. (various references)

Turkish		sel (deluge, flood, flooding, inundation, spate, stream, torrent), perde (act, cloak, curtain, drop, episode, fret, incident, key, pitch, screen, tone, veil, web, webbed), katarakt, şelâle (cascade, fall, waterfall), çağlayan (cascade, chute, fall, waterfall). (various references)

Ukranian		сильна злива, фонтан (fountain), катаракта, водоспад (falls, shoot, waterfall), опускні грати (portcullis), поріг (altar, apron, door step, riffle, sill, sole, threshold), потік (avalanche, current, deluge, downpour, flood, flow, outpour, rain, river, spate, splurge, torrent), демпфер (damper). (various references)

Vietnamese		cái hãm (brake, retainer), máy hãm (catch, caught). (various references)

Welsh		sgwd (waterfall), rhaeadr (waterfall), pistyll (spout), pilen (film, membrane). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	glaukoma, katarhaktes. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cataracta. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cataract": cataractous, cataracts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cataract" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cartaract, catacrat, catalac, catanach, cataora, cataratie, catarect, catatract, cateract, Catharacta, Citaristi, ctaract, ctgaacat, Datatrak, Katara. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cataract" (pronounced ka"terakts)
4	-a k t s	abstracts, subcompacts.
3	-k t s	abducts, acts, addicts, adjuncts, affects, afflicts, aftereffects, aqueducts, architects, artifacts, aspects, attracts, byproducts, cataracts, collects, compacts, conducts, conflicts, connects, constructs, contacts, contracts, contradicts, convicts, corrects, deducts, defects, deflects, depicts, derelicts, destructs, detects, detracts, dialects, directs, disrespects, dissects, distracts, districts, ducts, edicts, effects, elects, enacts, erects, exacts, expects, extracts, facts, impacts, infects, inflicts, injects, insects, inspects, instincts, instructs, intellects, interacts, interjects, intersects, neglects, objects, pacts, precincts, predicts, products, projects, prospects, protects, reacts, recollects, reconnects, reenacts, reflects, rejects, respects, restricts, retracts, sects, selects, subcontracts, subjects, suspects, tracts, verdicts, viaducts.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-r-t-t"
	-3 letters: attar, carat, tatar, tract.
	-4 letters: acta, caca, cart, tact, tart.
	-5 letters: act, arc, art, att, car, cat, rat, tar, tat.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: ataractic, cataracts.
	+2 letters: ataractics, paratactic.
	+3 letters: attractance, attractancy, cataractous.
	+4 letters: attractances, autocratical, paratactical.
	+5 letters: attractancies, extragalactic, intragalactic.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 74 61 72 61 63 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .- - .- .-. .- -.-. -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#99 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0061 0072 0061 0063 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cataract	1,063	cataract surgery cost	11
cataract surgery	402	cataract lake	11
eye cataract	46	cataract surgery recovery	10
cataract treatment	36	amarillo cataract surgery	10
cataract dog	29	cataract operation	9
cataract repair	27	cataract falls	8
cataract in dog	25	cataract institute laser pacific	8
cataract surgery columbus	24	cataract information	8
congenital cataract	23	cataract posterior subcapsular	8
cataract surgery ohio	23	cataract no oklahoma stitch surgery	7
cataract columbus	23	secondary cataract	7
cataract ohio	23	after cataract surgery	7
cataract surgery complication	23	journal of cataract and refractive surgery	7
cataract symptom	21	cataract of the eyes	7
cataract canyon	20	cataract dallas surgery	7
cataract eye surgery	20	cataract pennsylvania	7
cataract removal	18	cataract prevention	7
canine cataract	18	canine cataract surgery	7
cataract picture	16	american society of cataract and refractive surgery	7
cataract cause	15	cat cataract	7
laser surgery for cataract	11	cataract dog surgery	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cataract

Definitions: Cataract

Cataract

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Cataract

Synonyms: Cataract

Synonyms within Context: Cataract

River

Crosswords: Cataract

Modern Usage: Cataract

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Cataract

References

Books

Periodicals

Photo Album: Cataract

Use in Literature: Cataract

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Cataract

Usage Frequency: Cataract

Expressions: Cataract

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cataract

Modern Translations: Cataract

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cataract

Derivations & Misspellings: Cataract

Derivations

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Rhyming with "Cataract"

Anagrams: Cataract

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Cataract

43 61 74 61 72 61 63 74

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01000011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100011 01110100

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#99 &#116

0043 0061 0074 0061 0072 0061 0063 0074

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