What's the difference between eye and ophthalmoscope?

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.

Ophthalmoscope


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is presented a case of symptomatic separating of the retina which ophthalmoscopic examination, that with a Goldmann glass and that of echographic one have justified the enucleation for.
  • (2) The high frequency of angioid streaks observed in patients with beta thalassemia and the severe complications observed in one patient render a thorough ophthalmoscopic examination and follow-up of such patients necessary for both early diagnosis and possible therapeutic intervention.
  • (3) These results indicated that the regression model using the albumin index might be a useful method to predict the frequency of diabetic retinopathy even without ophthalmoscopic examination.
  • (4) Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed a single, white, elevated mass lesion surrounded by serous retinal detachment located in the upper part of the macula of the right eye.
  • (5) In four patients who had been referred because of acute visual deterioration caused by a vitreous hemorrhage of unknown origin, the peripheral fundus could initially be examined ophthalmoscopally.
  • (6) This paper documents our initial experience with a laser indirect ophthalmoscope used successfully in the retinal photocoagulation of patients with diabetic retinopathy, venous occlusions, peripheral retinal holes and lattice degenerations and in post-vitrectomy cases.
  • (7) In the group evaluated in the years 1986-89 the occurrence of the diabetic retinopathy diagnosed ophthalmoscopically was lower than in the group of 1981-84.
  • (8) Scleral depression with binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy will be easier to learn if the examiner observes the patient's pupillary reflex through the ophthalmoscope without looking through the hand-held condensing lens.
  • (9) In the case of 16 children, ophthalmoscopic criteria were taken from the 1984 international classification.
  • (10) Ophthalmoscopic examinations performed during recovery revealed changes of slight increase in tapetal islets, suggestive of a slight progression and organization within the tapetum followed by an arrest of the toxic insult within the tapetal tissue.
  • (11) The role of thermal diffusion can thus be assessed directly from the ophthalmoscopic and histologic appearances of the lesions.
  • (12) Five times more output energy was required to make equivalent burns with the diode laser indirect ophthalmoscope than with the argon or krypton laser indirect ophthalmoscopes.
  • (13) This image can be used during surgery to perform a variety of maneuvers that would otherwise require a contact prism, high-minus contact lens, or handheld indirect ophthalmoscope lens.
  • (14) The authors have developed a direct ophthalmoscope with simultaneous television transmission.
  • (15) Simultaneous ERG and VEP investigations were performed in 42 patients presenting reduced visual acuity and characteristic signs of retinopathy on direct ophthalmoscopic inspection: 1) primary retinal pigmentary degeneration - 15 cases; 2) secondary retinopathy - 11 cases; 3) infantile retinal degeneration - 16 cases.
  • (16) The ophthalmoscopic features of the optic discs were studied in a series of 411 non-selected school children representing four age groups from 7 to 15 years.
  • (17) In a case involving a 4-year-old esotrope with retinoblastoma, a federal appellate court has held that, as a matter of law, the standard of care expected of an optometrist requires a dilated fundus examination conducted with the binocular indirect ophthalmoscope at the initial visit and periodically thereafter.
  • (18) Objective measurement of the optic nerve head (ONH)-foveal angle, representing the torsional status of 40 eyes in 20 normal patients, was performed by fundus photography and compared to a method utilizing an indirect ophthalmoscope and protractor described herein.
  • (19) The currently required Federal Aviation Agency visual evaluation for commercial and airline pilots often does not detect quiescent retinal disease, unless there is a specific history or a current change in visual acuity which dictates the need for a dilated ophthalmoscopic evaluation.
  • (20) The best one is based on the intensification of the same laser beam used for the observation in the Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope: S.L.O.

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