Word: fibroplasia
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...mysterious disease is retrolental fibroplasia (RLF), in which there is a fibrous thickening of tissue behind the lens in the eye. Nobody knows the cause. The effect is to becloud the retina, the screen on which the lens focuses its image of things seen. Often the retina itself is changed beyond recognition: doctors are far from agreement on the signs of the disease, and some wonder whether they are dealing with two or more diseases...
...premature baby, Patty was a victim of retrolental fibroplasia (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949), an increasingly common cause of infant blindness...
Seven years ago the disease was described and tagged with the forbidding name of retrolental fibroplasia-because it seemed to be a growth of abnormal, fibrous tissue behind the lens of the eye. Doctors could not agree on whether the disease was new, or had simply gone unnoticed. Some said that the tiny victims were born with R.L.F.; others that it developed later...
...babies born prematurely, over 12% suffer from "retrolental fibroplasia," a growth of tissue behind the eye's lens...
Some 5% of infants with retrolental fibroplasia also suffer from a complication - congenital glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). Eyeman Terry says that pupil-contracting miotics (e.g., morphine, nico tine), if administered soon enough after birth, would knock the percentage down to 1. Other early babies are born with lento-cornea (adhesion of the lens to the cornea). A simple operation, if performed soon enough, can save their sight...