Phacodonesis (;
) is the tremulousness or vibration of the lens with eye movement.
This is often due to
lens subluxation
Ectopia lentis is a displacement or malposition of the eye's crystalline lens from its normal location. A partial dislocation of a lens is termed lens subluxation or subluxated lens; a complete dislocation of a lens is termed lens luxation or lux ...
, the incomplete or partial dislocation of the lens, caused by an injury to the eye in which some or most of the
zonular fibers
The zonule of Zinn () (Zinn's membrane, ciliary zonule) (after Johann Gottfried Zinn) is a ring of fibrous strands forming a zonule (little band) that connects the ciliary body with the crystalline lens of the eye. These fibers are sometimes collec ...
are broken.
See also
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Iridodonesis
References
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Ophthalmology
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