What's the difference between asthenopia and ophthalmological?
Asthenopia
Definition:
(n.) Weakness of sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diplopia and asthenopia following retinal surgery are rare, despite relatively frequent muscular imbalance, because of: (a) suppresion (which war frequently found even in orthophorics with good postoperative vision in both eyes); (b) compensation owing to fusional power, and (c) probable role of the sensory factor for the compensation of the subjective experience of cyclotropia.
(2) Averaged visual evoked potential (VEP) in 10 patients with asthenopia was compared with 20 normal subjects.
(3) Comparison of the Lees screen findings, visual fields, and accommodative defects of these patients revealed significant restriction of the Lees screen fields in only those patients who had symptoms of asthenopia (including all in the third group).
(4) Orthoptic therapy was instituted in an adult, alternating esotrope with asthenopia who exhibited inaccurate static accommodative responses with adequate, clinically determined, accommodative facility.
(5) However, asthenopia and diplopia may occur and may be hard to deal with.
(6) Subject if symptoms are unspecific, asthenopia, difficulties in nearwork, and for concentration.
(7) All patients receiving automated accommodative training showed a marked increase in accommodative amplitude along with a concurrent reduction of asthenopia.
(8) Correlations between pretreatment asthenopia scores and asthenopia scores after either induced vergence or version were also not significant.
(9) In general, the visual system was found to be resilient to the stress of sleep loss, the subjects experiencing mild symptoms of asthenopia (eyestrain).
(10) Changes in refractive power were then related to VDT work and asthenopia symptoms.
(11) The prevalence of general binocular dysfunction with asthenopia was determined for non-presbyopes at an urban optometry clinic serving municipal workers and their dependents.
(12) It is found that there was an important relationship between CI and asthenopia.
(13) Cerebral asthenopia is often overlooked as a symptom in diffuse brain lesion.
(14) The subjects consisted of ten college students, aged 20 to 22 years old as normal control and seven patients with asthenopia, aged 20 to 27.
(15) There was no evidence of any anomalous focusing responses resulting from either target chromaticity or defocus that could account for the asthenopia frequently reported by VDU users.
(16) Variations in the near point and retina irritability have been regarded the most sensitive and specific indices of asthenopia.
(17) All patients were in good health and asymptomatic, except for asthenopia during near visual activities.
(18) Subjective VDT-related symptoms of asthenopia were assessed by means of a questionnaire.
(19) In addition, the utilization of RDS associated with operant conditioning has been shown to improve vergence performance and to reduce asthenopia in the convergence insufficiency patient.
(20) The difference between the groups was highly significant (p less than 0.01); contrarywise, none of the subjects without asthenopia developed myopization.
Ophthalmological
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ophthalmology.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have reviewed our experience in the radiographic and ophthalmologic evaluation of 1001 patients with symptoms suggesting the presence of a pituitary, prolactin-secreting adenoma.
(2) Results from DNA-marker studies were combined with information from clinical, ophthalmological and electromyographic examinations, with age-dependent penetrance and a recombinant frequency of 4% between the genes for myotonic dystrophy and apolipoprotein C2 being taken into account.
(3) The ophthalmologist must explain to the child and the parents that dyslexia usually has no ophthalmological or visual cause but is a disability with a neurobiological background, still unknown, in which the only efficient treatment is within the area of pedagogy.
(4) "This is a step I never thought I would see," said Prof Robin Ali , a molecular geneticist at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London.
(5) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
(6) 200 patients who were diagnosed to have bacterial conjuntivitis (111 cases), corneal ulcers (39 cases), dacryocystitis (34 cases) or infections of the eyelids (16 cases) at the ophthalmology department of our university were taken as the patient group and there were 100 normal people in the control group.
(7) Follow up consisted of clinical investigation, laboratory evaluation with detailed thyroid function tests and complete ophthalmological assessments including A and B scan ultrasound and computerized tomography (CT) of the orbits.
(8) Four patients with autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia and retinal degeneration underwent neurologic and ophthalmologic examinations and computer-assessed corneal electroretinography.
(9) By discussing basic problems and methods of immunology the significance of immune-ophthalmological mechanisms is demonstrated.
(10) Fewer VLBW than LBW-children were neurologically and ophthalmologically normal.
(11) In 50% of the cases in groups II and III, diagnosis was made on a routine ophthalmologic examination.
(12) Ophthalmic examinations were performed for determining the suitability of seven different types of non-ophthalmic ultrasound equipments for ophthalmological purposes.
(13) A review of 27 cases of bacterial endophthalmitis diagnosed and treated at the Specialized Outpatient Department for Infectious Eye Diseases at the 2nd Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Vienna over a period of eight years (January 1983-April 1991) is presented.
(14) Hallermann-Streiff syndrome is a second branchial arch defect with significant ophthalmologic, dental and craniofacial findings.
(15) The author draws attention to the advantages of the omitted diagnostic method which can be used by all ophthalmological departments.
(16) The major PXE phenotype emerging from this study is very similar in both patient groups and is characterized by severe ophthalmologic manifestations with variable, mild cutaneous and vascular symptoms.
(17) Since the first use of lasers in ophthalmology in the early 1960s, applications for the medical laser have been found in many medical specialties.
(18) This, together with his remarkable intellect, enabled him to produce outstanding research work within a large spectrum of sciences more or less directly related to ophthalmology.
(19) This case is an unusual example of fibrous dysplasia of the skull with neuro-ophthalmological symptoms but without ptosis, exophthalmos, or visual loss.
(20) In this retrospective study the findings of visual acuity, visual field and papillae of 204 patients operated on the cerebrum were determined and the significance of the morphological factors (position and size of the defect of the cerebral parenchyma, extent of the cerebral ventricles, degree of the cortical atrophy, influence of dignity) for the persisting ophthalmological deficiency phenomena was pointed out.