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Crystalline lens

The natural lens of the eye, located behind the iris, which helps bring rays of light to focus on the retina. The original state of the lens is transparent, but the lens becomes cloudy with age (cataract). The lens has the ability to vary its power to accommodatively focus light from objects closer than optical infinity.

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