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lens capsule

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Noun1.lens capsule - a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye
capsule - a structure that encloses a body part
crystalline lens, lens of the eye, lens - biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina


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Bent and her team of engineers are devising ways to modify how the iris cells cluster on the surface of the lens capsule tissue using some of the same techniques used to make patterns on a computer chip.
Instead, the patient's lens capsule would be retained, its contents removed and replaced with the polymer.
Avantix is the only technology that functionally preserves the lens capsule intact after surgery.
 
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