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keratoconus

ke ruh tuh koh nuhs

  • n  abnormal cone-shaped protrusion of the cornea of the eye; can be treated by epikeratophakia

  • Owing to keratoconus (conical cornea) I lost the majority of my vision at the age of 21.
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  • Anthony Mundine in Sydney Morning Herald
    I have an eye condition called keratoconus that makes your eyeball go out of shape so you lose your focus and you can't see distances,Mundine said. "I've had it for the last three or four years, and anything over about five metres away, I...
  • Jules C. Stein in News 14 Charlotte
    There is some chance with LASIK that [keratoconus] might progress faster or progress when it might not have progressed had we not done surgery,David Rex Hamilton, MD, an ophthalmologist at the Jules Stein Eye Institute of UCLA, explained.

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