(n.) A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred ten atherosclerotic occlusions of the internal carotid artery (ICA) were found in 106 patients in group I. Fifty-one percent of these patients had a history of stroke before arteriography, 24% had transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or amaurosis fugax (AF), and 12% had nonhemispheric symptoms.
(2) The problems of the eye associated with amaurosis fugax, ischaemia optic neuropathy and chronic ocular ischaemia are presented and the possibility of treatment is discussed.
(3) A review of these patients' medical records documented that prior hemispheric symptoms referrable to the now occluded internal carotid artery had occurred in five (55%) of the nine patients who were admitted with stroke, five (62%) of the eight patients with a retinal infarct, six (60%) of the 10 patients who were admitted with a transient ischemic attack, all four (100%) patients who were admitted with amaurosis fugax, one (33%) of three patients with nonhemispheric symptoms, and in seven (70%) of the 10 patients who were asymptomatic when the internal carotid artery occlusion was identified angiographically.
(4) Blindness (amaurosis) as a complication of cosmetic surgery is not common, but has been reported in cases of blepharoplasty, as well as in connection with facial injection of various substances, including collagen.
(5) Eighty-seven patients with either amaurosis fugax (40 patients) or hemispheric transient ischemic attacks (47 patients) were studied to determine whether the two symptom groups could be differentiated clinically and arteriographically.
(6) A girl aged 13 years developed an acute unilateral Exophthalmos on the right side with disturbances of eye-motion, choked disc and nearly complete amaurosis within 3 days after onset.
(7) We believe that the amaurosis fugax was due to drug-induced vasospasm and that the retinal vasculitis was a drug-induced hypersensitivity vasculitis.
(8) The findings from this trial suggest that anticoagulant treatment is superior to antiplatelet therapy given in the prevention of ischemic attacks and that this difference mainly exists during the first one to 2 months after onset of transient ischemic attacks or amaurosis fugax.
(9) Reasons for operation and postoperative sequelae included: asymptomatic stenosis, transient ischemic attacks, non-hemispheric symptoms, amaurosis fugax, previous stroke, and evolving stroke.
(10) This observation confirms the commonly held hypothesis that pressure amaurosis is the result of pressure-induced neuroretinal ischemia.
(11) The authors analyze the main pathogenic hypothesis of the amaurosis which should be ascribed to an acute ischemia of the disk caused by the hematoma formed through the nerve sheath.
(12) Fourteen had congenital cataract, 12 congenital retinal aplasia (Leber's congenital amaurosis) and 11 retinopathy of prematurity.
(13) The retinal, electroretinogram, and fluorescein angiographic findings are described in ten patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis who ranged in age from 13 to 36 years when first seen.
(14) An accidental deep intraorbital penetration of a radio antenna tip damaged the optic nerve and caused immediate amaurosis in a 19-year-old female with normal funduscopic, electroretinographic and computerized tomographic orbital findings.
(15) None of the seven patients who presented with amaurosis fugax had recurrent visual symptoms.
(16) 24 years after the onset of symptoms) the fundus shows pigmentary degeneration with optic atrophy and narrowed vessels, ERG is extinguished and visual fields and dark adaptation cannot be recorded owing to amaurosis.
(17) Central retinal artery spasm occurring in both eyes simultaneously may be the mechanism explaining the visual loss of amaurosis fugax.
(18) In children with Leber congenital retinal amaurosis we have observed a normal myelination of the optic radiation.
(19) The possibility of a correlation between ophthalmic artery spasm and posttraumatic amaurosis has been discussed.
(20) We believe a focal lupus vasculopathy involving the central retinal artery caused the amaurosis fugax.
Amaurotic
Definition:
(a.) Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variations of cerebrospinal fluid-free amino acids observed in coma have been compared with those reported by other authors in patients affected by epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, infantile amaurotic idiocy (GM2-gangliosidosis) and phenylketonuria.
(2) Extraordinary retinal vascular events were observed and photographed during the amaurotic attacks.
(3) Interesting was the change of the pupil during the operation so that the amaurotic wide pupil was getting narrow similar to the uninjured one.
(4) Glycolipids were isolated from the brain of a patient with a myoclonic variant of late infantile amaurotic idiocy.
(5) Lymphocytes of the peripheral blood of 31 patients with juvenile amaurotic idiocy (juvenile form of ceroid lipofuscinosis) were examined with the electron microscope.
(6) In juvenile amaurotic idiocy, pleiomorphic cytosomes with prevalent curvilinear profiles can be found in the skin appendages; they are smaller, less abundant and a more careful search is necessary to discover them.
(7) Diagnoses of their illnesses included infantile Gaucher disease; Krabbe disease; Niemann-Pick disease, type A; glycogen storage disease, type 3; Fabry disease, Jansky-Bielschowsky and Spielmeyer-Vogt types of amaurotic idiocy, GM1 gangliosidosis, type 1; Hurler disease; and Sanfilippo disease, types A and B.
(8) The likelihood of transition of one type inclusion body into another, the specificity of the curvilinear body and, to our mind, the rigid classification of the amaurotic idiocy into a curvilinear and a fingerprint type, are discussed.
(9) After five years this tendency was more marked with several amaurotic eyes, 17% as compared to 10% of the simplex glaucoma group.
(10) Before death 0.8% were amaurotic in one eye, and 0.3% had serious impaired visual function caused by bilateral capsular glaucoma.
(11) The brain and liver from a 7-year-old Japanese girl with juvenile amaurotic idiocy were examined neuropathologically and biochemically.
(12) Noticeable cedifferences from the various types of amaurotic idiocies are noted and similarities to a case of lipidosis recently reported from Finland are suggested.
(13) Sphingolipids isolated from cerebral grey and white matter of two patients with Juvenile Amaurotic Idiocy (Spielmeyer-Vogt Type) were studied.
(14) The material presented comprises 44 patients with juvenile amaurotic family idiocy.
(15) This tenet is exemplified by the hopeless confusion which neuropathology has imparted on the problem of amaurotic familial idiocy.
(16) These eyes were practically amaurotic but in 43 cases out of 100 a positive results could be achieved (i.e.
(17) The combination of these structures, not necessarily in one and the same vacuole, was considered to be highly indicative for the diagnosis of juvenile amaurotic idiocy.
(18) The two juvenile cases correspond in their symptoms and findings to the so-called ceroid-lipofuscinoses or "Myoclonic variant of amaurotic idiocy", respectively.
(19) A striking feature of these patients was that 41% had headache or orbital pain accompanying their amaurotic spells and an additional 25.3% had severe headaches independent of the visual loss.
(20) The search for biochemical abnormalities in the neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) or Batten disease was initiated with the discovery of normal levels of gangliosides in juvenile amaurotic idiocy.