aphakia

1. 1.

   absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts)

   Broadervisual impairment

Other forms of aphakia

plural

aphakias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aphakia

What does aphakia mean?

aphakia means "absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts)".

How many syllables are in aphakia?

aphakia has 4 syllables: a-pha-ki-a. The stress falls on "pha".

Is aphakia a common word?

aphakia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.