(1) Ninety-five patients (88.8%) had the amblyopia syndrome mainly; twelve patients (11.2%) had amblyopia and other manifestations of the tropical ataxic neuropathy.
(2) We report a case of a 4-year-old boy with Adie's syndrome in which latent hypermetropia was made manifest by accommodative paresis and resulted in reversible amblyopia.
(3) It was classified according to the age of the children, the visual acuity, the fixation and the treatment of the amblyopia.
(4) After the test explanation, we present the results obtained in a case-report numbering 405 patients: 165 normal, 94 microtropias, 67 esotropias (ET), 50 anisometropic amblyopias, 29 es-anisometropic amblyopias.
(5) The following three measurements were made on a group of 20 pediatric and 5 adult patients with unilateral amblyopia: (1) speed threshold for recognizing motion-defined dotted letters; (2) recognition acuity for isolated solid letters of 4% contrast; and (3) Snellen line acuity for high-contrast letters.
(6) Uncorrected refractive error (particularly anisometropia), strabismus, ptosis, and corneal exposure problems are an invitation to the development of amblyopia.
(7) Forty cases of clear corneal grafts in 2 groups of patients who developed corneal opacities either before or after 5 years of age were investigated for the pattern of amblyopia and fixation.
(8) Amblyopia was due to anisometropia in 24 cases (50%), strabismus in 9 cases (18.7%), high astigmatism (meridional) in 7 cases (14.5%) and other causes or a combination of factors in 8 cases (16.7%).
(9) Epikeratophakia did not facilitate occlusion therapy for amblyopia.
(10) Increased saccadic latencies were observed in the amblyopic eyes of 6 of 11 subjects, with or without strabismus; saccadic latencies were similar in each eye of 2 subjects having intermittent strabismus without amblyopia.
(11) The presence of +2.00 or more D of spherical hypermetropia in both eyes, or +1.00 or more D sphere or cylinder of anisometropia was significantly associated (P=0.0779%) with that child being identified 2+ years later as having either squint or amblyopia or both.
(12) The keratoplasty was taken from the patient's left eye with amblyopia.
(13) The variety of experimental manipulations shown to induce amblyopia in young cats and monkeys is described.
(14) 270 children of the "Blindeninstituts-stiftung Würzburg" were followed up between 1960 and 1987. ad 1) Optic atrophy was the leading cause of visual impairment (24%) followed by cataract and retinopathy of prematurity (both found in 17%), malformations of the anterior segment (12%), cortical amblyopia (8%) and refractive error (6%).
(15) All the cases of squint and amblyopia referred to both hospital and school clinics in one district during one calendar year have been reviewed in order to clarify when, where, and how these cases first present to the ophthalmologist.
(16) The most important squints to diagnose are the concomitant squints of childhood as they can lead to amblyopia, which is irreversible after the age of ten years.
(17) Twenty-seven children with anisometropic amblyopia and four children without amblyopia participated.
(18) Furthermore, the vision of the other eye is often reduced as well, with the result that the eventual outcome is a condition of bilateral amblyopia.
(19) The reduced visual acuities in one case appeared to be caused at least partly by astigmatism and the associated astigmatic amblyopia.
(20) The Titmus stereotest was found to be an effective means of screening for amblyopia.
Eyesight
Definition:
(n.) Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
(2) And the question of his eyesight and how it has affected him has dogged him ever since.
(3) Major or complete loss of eyesight is a serious interference with the activity and life of the affected subject.
(4) The average person uses three mechanisms to control their balance; their feet, the inner ear and eyesight.
(5) Many serious disorders that threaten eyesight can now be treated with vitreoretinal surgery.
(6) The child regained her eyesight and had no further neurological problems.
(7) Deterioration of eyesight after the operation is ascribed to the duration of the high intraocular pressure and gradual progression of the proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
(8) Either he was rejected for poor eyesight; or he failed to enlist and instead joined up as an ambulance driver.
(9) Rhian Kelly, head of climate change at the CBI , said: "When we talk to members, the majority of them say the government has climate change firmly within its eyesight, and in that sense, national policy is a far larger driver."
(10) "There has been absolutely no deterioration in my eyesight ….
(11) "It could affect a few organs, his eyesight, his hearing, and it can attack muscles too.
(12) These discoveries led to the use of the seed of the species as an eye medicine for improving the eyesight, and as a tonic for the increase of strength and the elevation of spirit.
(13) Old Man Trump’s eyesight is failing, and he can’t stop trying to nonconsensually force his tongue into his nurse’s mouth.
(14) Members of two Leber families previously published in 1944 (Lundsgård) and 1968 (Seedorff), were traced during the years 1968-1980 and questioned in 1981 about their eyesight.
(15) A study in the Lancet, published in 2014, also claimed to have established a “clear cause–effect relationship” between the use of poppers and eyesight damage since the product’s main ingredient isobutyl nitrite was substituted for isopropyl nitrite following changes to legislation in 2006.
(16) By the end of his career, his poor eyesight meant he conducted entirely from memory.
(17) "My father is traumatised and depressed with the loss of his eyesight.
(18) (2) Last week, Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was found guilty of ordering an acid attack that damaged the eyesight of the company's artistic director, Sergei Filin.
(19) Time losses for a curative and diagnostic consultation and provision of medical care to invalids of the Ist group with eyesight disorders exceeded the time necessary for rendering care to those who could see by 31-34%.
(20) Brown's allies thought the attack unreasonable because the prime minister's handwriting is affected by his poor eyesight.