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glass eye
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glass eye
n.
1. An artificial eye fashioned of glass.
2. An eye whose iris is whitish, pale, or colorless.

glass eye
Artificial eye, see there

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Q. My myopic son is wearing power glasses. Are there any other nutritional supplements to support eye sight? My myopic son is wearing power glasses from the age of 2 years. His power is not very high yet but the rate of his eye power is doubling every year. Doctor had given him some medicines and had told him to have lots of carrots. We are giving him carrot juice every day. But soon he stopped taking it for some months. But he is having juice now but I wish to know are there any other nutritional supplements to support eye sight?

A. eating carrots can help people who suffers from vitamin A or beta-carotene deficiency. which leads to poor night vision. but that's it. there is no reason to eat tremendous amounts of carrots, there are food supplements that will help you achieve it without becoming orange. anyway, getting too much vitamin A can be toxic.
here is a "snopes" about it-
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp

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In fact, water sports, such as diving and water skiing, are the most common ways ocular prosthetics are lost.
Creating new eyes so lifelike that nobody knows the difference falls to a small group of "ocularists" that includes Kevin Schou (pronounced "scow") and his wife, Maureen Maloney-Schou, owners of Maloney's Ocular Prosthetics, founded by Maloney-Schou's father, Bernard Maloney, in 1947.
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