What's the difference between eye and glaucoma?

Eye


Definition:

  • (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
  • (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.) Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.
  • (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.

Glaucoma


Definition:

  • (n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
  • (5) Two homosexual men, 35 and 42 years old, had bilateral acute angle-closure glaucoma in association with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  • (6) Eight patients had glaucoma only in one eye; three narrow-angle glaucoma, three primary open-angle glaucoma and two secondary glaucoma.
  • (7) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
  • (8) This procedure, designated "pretrabecular filtration", has been a standard primary procedure in all types of glaucoma in our hospital for the last 3 years.
  • (9) Fibronectin level in the ocular drainage system of humans grows with ageing and rapidly increases at different stages of primary open-angle glaucoma development.
  • (10) Three patients had low-tension glaucoma and four had typical primary open-angle glaucoma.
  • (11) There was no evidence of glaucoma in any of the patients although two patients exhibited keratoconus and another one manifested moderate to high astigmatism.
  • (12) We propose a new classification of glaucomatous hemodynamics and the clinical application of hemodynamic parameters in glaucoma diagnosis.
  • (13) A study was made of twelve cases with uveitis, glaucoma and hyphema (UGH) caused by rigid intraocular posterior chamber implants.
  • (14) A prospective study was performed by 30 ophthalmologists to determine the prevalence of exfoliation syndrome (ES) in different areas of France and its relationship with glaucoma.
  • (15) The Ocusert-pilocarpine devides with seven days' therapeutic duration were compared with pilocarpine eye drops for efficacy and ocular tolerance in the management of glaucoma in 16 patients.
  • (16) Topographical analysis on the basis of these areas may be useful for the evaluation of visual fields, particularly those of glaucoma.
  • (17) In patients with a high starting baseline pressure of previous maladjustable glaucoma it was necessary to start combined treatment.
  • (18) In another 4 subjects anti-glaucoma treatment was felt to be indicated.
  • (19) 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.
  • (20) Our results indicate that the size and sensitivity of the oscillatory potential response may have a role in the diagnosis and management of early glaucoma and optic nerve disease, and that the photopic electroretinogram may give similar information.

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