posterior subcapsular cataract

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   a cataract in the rear of the lens capsule

   Broadercataract

Questions about posterior subcapsular cataract

What does posterior subcapsular cataract mean?

posterior subcapsular cataract means "a cataract in the rear of the lens capsule".

Is posterior subcapsular cataract a common word?

posterior subcapsular cataract is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.