To make things even more confusing, the U.S. military and some government agencies use the term CONUS to refer to the lower 48 United States. (Read more at Wiktionary). Many people assume that acronym stands for CONtinental. U.S. when it really stands for CONtiguous.
aphakia Aphakia literally means absence of crystalline lens from the eye. However, from the optical point of view, it may be considered a condition in which the lens is absent from the pupillary area. Aphakia produces a high degree of hypermetropia. Causes 1. Congenital absence of lens. It is a rare condition. 2. Surgical aphakia occurring after removal of lens is the commonest presentation. 3. Aphakia due to absorption of lens matter is noticed rarely after trauma in children. 4. Traumatic extrusion of lens from the eye also constitutes a rare cause of aphakia. 5. Posterior dislocation of lens in vitreous causes optical aphakia. Optics of aphakic eye Following optical changes occur after removal of crystalline lens: 1.
Definition of phallic. 1  1 : of or relating to phallicism a phallic cult. 2  2 : of, relating to, or resembling a phallus. 3  3 : relating to or being the stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory that follows the anal stage and during which a child becomes interested in his or her own sexual organs.