- gas-permeable lens
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/gas"perr'mee euh beuhl/a semisoft contact lens, usually removed each day, that allows air to pass through to the eye and affords a wider range of vision corrections than a soft contact lens.
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gas-permeable lens
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gas permeable lens — UK US noun [countable] [singular gas permeable lens plural gas permeable lenses] a type of contact lens (=a piece of plastic you wear on your eye so that you can see clearly) that allows air to reach your eye … Useful english dictionary
gas permeable lens — noun count a type of CONTACT LENS (=a piece of plastic you wear on your eye so that you can see clearly) that allows air to reach your eye … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
gas permeable lens — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms gas permeable lens : singular gas permeable lens plural gas permeable lenses a type of contact lens (= a piece of plastic you wear on your eye so that you can see clearly) that allows air to reach your eye … English dictionary
gas-permeable lens — /gas perr mee euh beuhl/ a semisoft contact lens, usually removed each day, that allows air to pass through to the eye and affords a wider range of vision corrections than a soft contact lens … Useful english dictionary
gas permeable lens — noun (C) a kind of contact lens that allows oxygen to reach your eyes … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
gas-permeable — adj. Gas permeable is used with these nouns: ↑contact lens … Collocations dictionary
gas-permeable — adjective (of a contact lens) allowing the diffusion of gases into and out of the cornea … English new terms dictionary
Rigid gas permeable — lenses are rigid contact lenses made of oxygen permeable polymers. Initially developed in the late 1970s, and through the 1980s and 1990s, they were an improvement over prior hard lenses that restricted oxygen transmission to the eye. Rigid… … Wikipedia
contact lens gas permeable — any contact lens that transmits oxygen and carbon dioxide … Medical dictionary
contact lens non–gas permeable hard — a contact lens, generally formed of polymethyl methacrylate, that transmits little to no oxygen and carbon dioxide to the cornea. Called also PMMA contact l … Medical dictionary
