(n.) The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.
(n.) The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.
(n.) The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.
(n.) The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.
(n.) That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance
(n.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock.
(n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.
(n.) The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.
(n.) The center of a target; the bull's-eye.
(n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.
(n.) The hole through the head of a needle.
(n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.
(n.) The hole through the upper millstone.
(n.) That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
(n.) Tinge; shade of color.
(v. t.) To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.
(v. i.) To appear; to look.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(3) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(4) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(5) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(6) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(8) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(9) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
(10) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
(11) Immunoblotting with glycoprotein preparations from human eye muscle; 3.
(12) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(13) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.
(14) The mean preoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) of 43.9 mmHg in the eyes with neovascular glaucoma was reduced to 17.4 mmHg after a mean follow-up of 20.2 months.
(15) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(16) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(17) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(18) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(19) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(20) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
Eyelet
Definition:
(n.) A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.
(n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to assure reproducibility of the applicator positioning, the plaque suture eyelets had to be placed on locating pins.
(2) Five GIC's (Intact, Fuji II, Orthocem B, ChemFil II, and Ketac Fil[capsulated]) and one composite resin (Concise) were tested by bonding GAC eyelets, with a curved photo-etched base, to the buccal surface of human premolars.
(3) The active length is not symmetric with respect to the source center because one source end contains an eyelet.
(4) A reference position was established for the tibial eyelet so that, after the Gore-Tex ligament was implanted, the total anterior-posterior laxity of the knee (at 200 newtons of applied tibial force) matched that of the intact knee (that is, before the anterior cruciate ligament had been cut) at 20 degrees of flexion.
(5) The real attraction is the amazing Song of the Sea eyelet rock arch.
(6) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(7) With an applied extension moment of ten newton-meters, section of the anterior cruciate ligament increased hyperextension of the knee by 2.3 degrees; implantation of the Gore-Tex ligament did not restore full extension, even when the ligament was over-tightened by using a distal location for the tibial eyelet.
(8) Mechanical complications occurred: rupture of the head of the screw (1 case), sliding of the rod in the eyelet with loss of correction (2 cases), fractures of the rod (1 case) or screws (5 cases).
(9) This apparent stretch-out of the ligament could be worked out of the knee by manually flexing and extending the knee thirty times between zero and 90 degrees of flexion while a constant 200-newton force was applied to the tibial eyelet.
(10) It has open circular loops with an eyelet at each loop end.
(11) When the eyelet was in the reference position, the ligament forces ranged from three to 319 newtons when the knee was in full extension, they rose dramatically as the knee was hyperextended, and they decreased to zero in most specimens as the knee was flexed more than 15 degrees.
(12) Osaka brand Roggykei and Tokyo-grown FEAR make some of the edgiest pieces around, such as a vest made of vinyl and eyelet lace, oversized metallic leather clutches and wrist bands slathered in studs and zips.
(13) The lens diameter can be reduced to 7 mm by grasping the eyelets at both open loop ends with a specially designed holding forceps.
(14) It has all the advantages of eyelet wiring while simplifying some of the difficulties connected with that technique.
(15) Any specialized guide wire can be converted to an exchange guide wire by the addition of an eyelet on its stiff end to which an extension guide wire may be hooked.
(16) Button wiring has been used as an alternative to eyelet wiring in the Department of Oral and Dental Surgery of Birmingham General Hospital since 1977.
(17) The fibers were then placed horizontally between two steel hooks inserted in eyelets of the tendon clasps.
(18) For each millimeter that the tibial eyelet was moved distally, the total anterior-posterior laxity decreased by the same amount.
(19) The method uses a modified type of ligation chain that enables the oral surgeon to lasso the tooth with ease and affords the orthodontist large, successively placed eyelets to which he can easily tie elastic thread in order to keep continuous heavy force pulling the tooth toward the oral cavity.