(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.
Subconjunctival
Definition:
(a.) Situated under the conjunctiva.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-one eyes with primary open angle glaucoma and four with chronic angle closure glaucoma were randomly assigned to receive four to six subconjunctival injections of fluorouracil for 10 days after surgery.
(2) Signs include lid edema, periauricular lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, follicular reaction, and typically subconjunctival hemorrhages.
(3) Concentrations of the free or encapsulated drug were measured by ELISA in different eye compartments following repetitive drop administration or single subconjunctival injection.
(4) A partial-thickness limbal corneal flap provided access to an intrastromal limbal pocket through which the subconjunctival space was entered with an irrigating cystotome.
(5) Although resistant to some antibiotics, the corneal ulcer resolved after treatment with topical, subconjunctival, and intramuscular gentamicin sulfate.
(6) To assess the effect of corticosteroid on the establishment of experimentally induced keratomycoses, rabbits were injected subconjunctivally with triamcinolone acetonide on two successive days before inoculation with Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, or Fusarium solanae.
(7) A further 17 patients received no treatment other than subconjunctival cephazolin administered to all operated eyes at the time of surgery.
(8) The aquous humor flows to the subconjunctival space through a fine membraneous tissue, formed on the surface of the lips of the "parathalamus".
(9) Diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations for suspected gram-negative endophthalmitis are presented and include: immediate paracentesis of the eye for gram stain and culture, systemic therapy with an antibiotic such as gentamicin and either subconjunctival, subtenon or intraocular injection of antibiotics.
(10) cAMP was used subconjunctivally for treatment of HSV-I keratitis.
(11) To study the effect of pretreatment of rabbits with locally administered steroids, unilateral subconjunctival injections of 10 mg. triamcinolone suspension were given 10 and 3 days before intracorneal injection of the same eye with bovine gamma globulin.
(12) In three dogs given a subconjunctival injection of methylprednisolone acetate for the treatment of ophthalmic disorders, a yellow mass developed at the injection site.
(13) After subconjunctival injection the levels measured exhibit bi-exponential kinetics, with the apparent absorption constant Ka = 3.816 h-1.
(14) Albino rabbit eyes were given either unilateral intravitreal injections of 1 mg of 5-FU, 2.5 mg of 5-FU, or 0.1 mg of FUR, or subconjunctival injections of 3 mg of 5-FU twice daily after a trephine procedure.
(15) Significant inhibition by subconjunctival PPP was not achieved for any of the three stimuli.
(16) Prednisolone concentrations in cornea, aqueous humor, and vitreous humor and the residual amount in conjunctival tissue were assayed by high-performance liquid chromatography during a 14-hour period after subconjunctival injection of prednisolone sodium succinate in rabbits.
(17) Eighteen patients received 125 mg ceftazidime subconjunctivally before they underwent routine cataract surgery.
(18) For treatment of 35 patients with intraocular hemorrhages (22 persons with hemophthalmos and 13 persons with hemorrhages into the retina) collalysin was injected subconjunctivally, 50 CU in a 0.3 ml of 0.5% novocaine solution.
(19) Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, an infection caused by enterovirus 70 and a variant of coxsackievirus A24, is characterized by the rapid onset of severely painful conjunctivitis and subconjunctival hemorrhage.
(20) CME patients were treated with oral or subconjunctival injection of corticosteroids, when diabetes was controlled and they had no or mild retinopathy, and good visual acuity was recovered (0.98 on average).