Word: cornea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Contact lenses are not ideal either: often difficult to manage, uncomfortable to wear, easy to lose. Is there any other option? Some ophthalmologists now think there is. They say two common vision problems-near- and farsightedness (myopia and hyperopia)-can be corrected or eased with surgery that reshapes the cornea, the eye's outer covering...
Light enters the eye in parallel rays, which are gradually bent as they pass through the cornea and lens. In the normal eye, they converge, or focus, precisely on the retina at the back of the eyeball. Electrical impulses then transmit a sharp image to the brain. In the nearsighted, however, the eyeball is usually too long or the cornea too curved, so that the rays come to a focus in front of the retina. In the farsighted, the eyeball is too short or the cornea too flat and the light rays, if they could pass through it, would converge...
...ISLANDERS v. BUFFALO: By the time it ended, Bob Lorimer had a gash over his right eye, Terry O'Reilly a purple welt under his; Bob Nystrom still wondered where his contact lens went and vowed to avenge Brad McCrimmon for a scratched cornea. No, the face-smacking, bone-crunching, degrading, "If you can't beat 'em in the alley beat 'em three out of four at Boston Garden," generally nasty, brutish and protracted quarterfinal Thermopylae betwixt the New York Islanders and the Boston Bruins was not a good series for eyes...