(n.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
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Synchysis
Definition:
(n.) A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.
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(1) Review of inpatient records at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for ten years and the inpatient and outpatient records at the Children's Hospital Medical Center for eight years revealed no diagnosed cases of synchysis scintillans.
(2) Mechanical, physico-chemical and biological effects of intravitreal hematoma are associated with syneresis of some and synchysis of other vitreous body areas and the following formation of films in induration sites and appearance of uncharacteristic structures.
(3) This study corroborates previous reports and suggests that synchysis scintillans occurs only in severely damaged, blind eyes not visible to observation.
(4) Although light-induced liquefaction was less marked than enzyme-induced liquefaction, the mechanism of the former is more pertinent to age-related vitreous synchysis.
(5) This observation leads one to believe, contrary to the current concept, in the very interesting possibility of the crystal formation (or synchysis scintillans) in an apparently healthy eye.
(6) Both the current concept and terminology of synchysis scintillans are inaccurate.