(n.) The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) A diagnosis of unilateral tuberculosis of the conjunctiva was established in a 75-year-old female patient eight years after the first manifestations of disease.
(2) The difference from the Hughes flap is that the blood supply is maintained through two tubed pedicles of conjunctiva and Muller's muscle, rather than an apron of conjunctiva.
(3) In neurological diseases the hyposensitivity could include the cornea, conjunctiva and lid margin.
(4) We describe two patients with different adnexal locations of localized extramedullary plasmacytomas, one under the conjunctiva of the caruncle and the other under the tarsal conjunctiva.
(5) This is the first reported case of malakoplakia arising from conjunctiva, although three others have involved the ocular adnexa.
(6) The conjunctival surfaces of ten patients with active, ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, three patients with drug-controlled ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, and six patients with normal conjunctivas were studied using scanning electron microscopy.
(7) Noncontact biomicroscopy of the vessels of the bulbar conjunctiva was employed to examine the microcirculatory bed in 91 normal full-term infants, who received 8-9 points according to Apgar's scale, in the course of the postnatal period.
(8) A chronic, progressive disease, CP is characterized by shrinkage of the conjunctiva, symblepharon, entropion, trichiasis, dry eye, and finally reduced vision from corneal opacification.
(9) The adjacent conjunctiva appeared normal except for a possible slight decrease in goblet cells.
(10) Tarsal conjunctivas of 14 normal guinea pigs, 34 infected ones, and 7 control guinea pigs (inoculated with yolk sac only) were excised and tested for peroxidase by the Graham and Karnovsky method (J. Histochem.
(11) Patients with fever, polymorphous skin eruption, congested conjunctiva, reddened palms and soles, red lips and oral mucous membrane, and soft-tissue swelling of the peripheral extremities and who experience membranous desquamation of fingers and toes should be suspected of having mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.
(12) A four and a half-year old Nigerian girl, living at home, who presented with protracted fever, multifocal lymph node enlargement, extensive scaly rash, injected conjunctivae, fissuring of the lip and other features consistent with a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease is reported.
(13) The guinea pig conjunctiva is a suitable tissue for studying the pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis.
(14) The opthalmologist had performed the opthalmoscopic examination, biomicroscopy of the vessels of conjunctiva and episclera the opthalmocalibrometry and angiophotometry as well as opthalmodynamometry.
(15) Five masses involved the bulbar conjunctiva, and 2 masses involved the eyelids.
(16) The concentration of sodium cromoglycate in the tears, conjunctiva and cornea 6 h after administration of the acetylated lanolin base equalled or exceeded the concentrations obtained with the aqueous solution 1 h post-instillation.
(17) Bacterial growth was found in 8 (20.5%) of 39 patients with clinically normal conjunctiva and no polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), and in 8 (61.5%) of 13 subjects with clinically normal conjunctiva and evidence of PMNs.
(18) We concluded that CT will cause AOM in the chinchilla by direct inoculation into the middle ear as well as indirectly by infection of the nasopharynx and conjunctiva.
(19) The most common eye disease are cataract, refractive error and presbyopia, and diseases of the conjunctiva and sclera.
(20) The amino acid composition showed some differences between pterygium and normal conjunctiva.
Conjunctival
Definition:
(a.) Joining; connecting.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the conjunctiva.
Example Sentences:
(1) Malignant melanoma of the conjunctival region was induced in the golden Syrian hamster.
(2) Using a silver staining technique (AgNOR technique), we have investigated the nucleolar organizer-associated proteins (NORs) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded conjunctival specimens of 15 intraepithelial squamous carcinomas, 10 hyperplastic-dysplastic samples and 10 control epithelial fragments; the mean number of intranuclear black dots was determined for each case.
(3) Enzymatic lability does not, however, play as important a role as lipophilicity in the corneal and conjunctival penetration of cycloalkyl and aryl ester prodrugs.
(4) One hundred cases of histologically proven corneal and conjunctival tumours were extracted from the records at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and from the senior author's private practice in the last ten years.
(5) Antibodies were almost never present in the absence of conjunctival follicles, but their titres were unrelated to the degree of follicular hyperplasia; there was no obvious relationship between the serological findings and corneal lesions.
(6) The relationship between bulbar conjunctival hyperemia and temperature was investigated.
(7) Results indicate that topical administration of insulin-containing ophthalmic solution, either alone at the concentrations used or in combination with surface-acting agents, did not result in effective absorption of insulin across the conjunctival and lacrimal nasal mucosa in biologically relevant quantities.
(8) As far as the sclera is concerned, the histologic cut of the conjunctival covering allows a conclusion on physiologic compatibility of the implant material.
(9) The only variable was the type of conjunctival flap used: one eye received a limbal-based flap and the other a fornix-based flap.
(10) The authors compared the presence of conjunctival calcifications in a group of 37 patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis with laboratory findings and radiologic examinations.
(11) To develop a better model for studying GPIC immunity, conjunctival pockets were established under the abdominal skin of guinea pigs by subcutaneous implantation.
(12) Anatomic success (absence of phthisis bulbi, enucleation, or conjunctival flap) was achieved in 20 eyes (87%).
(13) Conjunctival samples were taken for culture on the day treatment was initiated and a mean of 8 and 21 days later.
(14) Immediately after eye rubbing the conjunctival epithelium was histologically disrupted and 50% of the mast cells showed evidence of degranulation.
(15) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
(16) Thus, in man, tear fibrinolytic activity may depend primarily on a release of PAs from conjunctival tissue.
(17) The assay of lipid composition in red blood cells of 51 patients with iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) was conducted with the use of horizontal thin-layer chromatography, and the state of the end blood flow was studied with the ai of conjunctival biomicroscopy.
(18) Later, a similar painful right proptosis with severe conjunctival chemosis developed.
(19) Signs include lid edema, periauricular lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, follicular reaction, and typically subconjunctival hemorrhages.
(20) This can be achieved by penetrating keratoplasty, lamellar keratoplasty, sclerokeratoplasty, keratectomy, peritomy, conjunctival transplantation or keratoepithelioplasty.