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Situated or occurring behind a lens.

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  • A epidemic of retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) seemed to have grown up just as treatments for preemies had improved.
  • Known then as retrolental fibroplasia, it is now called retinopathy of prematurity, or R.O.P. The oxygen, he found, led to overgrowth of blood vessels in the eye,...
  • Let me explain: I've been living with retrolental fibroplasia (now known by the more benign, over-arching term
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