What's the difference between eye and ophthalmic?

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.

Ophthalmic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (2) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (3) Retrobulbar anesthesia has become the most common form of anesthesia used in ophthalmic surgery.
  • (4) Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a distinct clinical entity, with ophthalmic involvement in 10% of patients.
  • (5) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
  • (6) Description of the ophthalmic signs and ocular results.
  • (7) Stable normalization of the ophthalmic tone and stabilization of the process were achieved in 60 eyes (89.2%).
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) Fractal geometry offers a more accurate description of ocular anatomy and pathology than classical geometry, and provides a new language for posing questions about the complex geometrical patterns that are seen in ophthalmic practice.
  • (10) HRP-labeled corneal afferent somata were located in the dorsal part of the ophthalmic region of the ipsilateral trigeminal ganglion.
  • (11) It is emphasized that patients after ophthalmic herpes should be kept under dispensary observation.
  • (12) All of the patients with ophthalmic manifestations had either bone marrow relapse or central nervous system leukaemia.
  • (13) Ophthalmic examinations were performed for determining the suitability of seven different types of non-ophthalmic ultrasound equipments for ophthalmological purposes.
  • (14) Advances of therapeutic strategies in the management of critically ill patients have resulted in an increased life expectancy and more frequent presentations to ophthalmic surgeons.
  • (15) This was because 71% of the ophthalmic arteries arose from the supero-medial aspect of the ICA, and because there was nothing to intercept the view of the medial aspect of the ICA under the optic nerve.
  • (16) In order to evaluate Graves' ophthalmopathy new CT parameters have been introduced such as: the diameters of the five extraocular muscles, the value of their addition, the grade of apical crowding, the enlargement of optic nerve sheaths and of the superior ophthalmic vein, and the anterior displacement of the lacrimal gland.
  • (17) One patient later developed a moderately severe congestive ophthalmopathy, and repeated selective carotid arteriograms showed that the shunt was now draining anteriorly into the superior ophthalmic vein.
  • (18) The dosimetry of ophthalmic plaques designed to hold iridium-192 or iodine-125 seeds is investigated experimentally and by means of a computer model.
  • (19) None of the available treatment methods has been fully satisfactory, and every effort should be made to prevent eye lesions in patients with early infection of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve.
  • (20) Illustrative cases are given describing the successful treatment of aneurysms arising at the origin of the ophthalmic artery, within the cavernous sinus, within the sella turcica, and from the vertebrobasilar and the posterior inferior cerebellar arteries ventral to the brain stem.

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