The sunflowers have a giant round shaped center with petals spread around.
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A cataract is a cloudy or opaque area (or areas) in the lens of the eye.
The features of the opacity of the lens helps differentiate various types of cataract.
In sunflower cataract, the opacity of the lens takes up a shape similar to that of a sunflower.
This type of cataract can be seen in the eyes of people with Wilson's disease, a rare genetic disorder leading to excess copper storage in different parts of the body.
Copper deposition in the lens leads to a 'sunflower' or 'sunburst' cataract consisting of a greenish central disc in the anterior capsule of ocular lens (similar to the central large area of a sunflower) with spoke-like radial opacities (similar to the petals spread out from the centre of the flower).
Click for image: Sunflower cataract in Wilson's disease
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