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Frazier lens

A frazier lens is a special type of lens that is used in medical instruments called endoscopes. Endoscopes are used to look inside the human body, such as the throat or stomach, without having to make a big cut or surgery. The lens is named after Dr. Edward Frazier who invented it.

Now, let's say you want to look at a tiny toy car that is super far away. You might try to look at it through a magnifying glass, but it's still too far away for the magnifying glass to work. So you might use a telescope or binoculars to see it.

An endoscope works in a similar way. It has a tiny camera at one end that captures the image inside the body. But the image needs to be magnified so the doctor can see it clearly. That's where the frazier lens comes in.

The frazier lens is a small, curved piece of glass or plastic that sits inside the endoscope. It helps magnify the image that the camera captures so the doctor can see exactly what's going on inside the body. The lens works by bending the light that enters the endoscope, which makes the image appear bigger and easier to see.

So, in summary, a frazier lens is a special type of lens used in medical endoscopes to help doctors see inside the body by magnifying the image captured by a tiny camera.