Contrary to popular belief, a cataract is not a "film" over the eye. Rather, it is a gradual thickening and clouding of the eye’s crystalline lens.
Cataract: A "clouding" of the lens in your eye. Light passing through a cataractous lens becomes scattered, resulting in blurred or defocused vision.
As we age, proteins clump together and begin to cloud a small area of the lens. Over time, the cataract may grow larger, clouding more of the lens, making vision more and more difficult. Eventually, the lens becomes so clouded that light is either distorted or cannot reach the back of the eye (the retina) for transmission to the brain.
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