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When the lens support structure is weak, there is a risk the cataractous lens will fall into the back of the eye.

From Washington Times • Apr. 30, 2017

Possibly, in a greatly-prolonged decay of all the organs with age, all eyes tend to become cataractous from structural alteration of the crystalline lens.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The lens is practically always cataractous before this takes place.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The crystalline lens may become cataractous and shrunken.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.

Barkar speaks of a piece of steel which penetrated through the cornea and lens, and which, five months later, was successfully removed by the extraction of the cataractous lens.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)