Word: cornea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cornea, or transparent front coating of the eyeball, occasionally becomes clouded, so that light cannot get through to the retina. Result: blindness. Eye surgeons recently perfected the operation of replacing such a clouded cornea with a corneal graft from the useless eye of an-other human being (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Dr. Ramon Castroviejo of Manhattan performed that operation on the left eye of Fremont Clark of Wadena, Iowa with this new twist: Instead of waiting for another patient to give up his cornea, Dr. Castroviejo gave Mr. Clark the cornea of a still-born baby...
...examinations of the eye wherein they permit the physician to obtain a view of certain portions of the interior of the living eye-ball which could not otherwise be seen. In the first application they have been used almost exclusively to give useful vision to persons suffering from conical cornea, a disorder in which the front of the eye-ball takes the form of a cone. Such a defect renders the patient's vision practically useless and the trouble can not be corrected with the ordinary spectacle lens. In such cases, contact glasses restore fair vision for as long...