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Question
The defect of vision in which the eye-lens of a person gets progressively cloudy resulting in blurred vision is called:
(a) myopia
(b) presbyopia
(c) colourblindness
(d) cataract
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Solution
cataract
Cataract is the defect of vision because of which the eye lens gets progressively cloudy, resulting in blurred vision.
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