(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.
Pterygium
Definition:
(n.) A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) There seems to be an association between pterygium and cicatricial trachoma, poor housing conditions and Herbert's Pits in this population.
(2) We found the postoperative instillation of 0.02% mitomycin C, twice a day for five days, to be effective and safe in the treatment of primary pterygium.
(3) The amino acid composition showed some differences between pterygium and normal conjunctiva.
(4) I describe concentrations of reflected solar radiation (albedo) found at the usual sites of various conditions associated with exposure to the sun--pterygium, pinguecula, climatic droplet keratopathy and cataract and eyelid malignancy.
(5) This abnormal vascularity may have caused pterygium formation and death of the fetus.
(6) Just as with other surgical procedures, however, the lamellar keratoplasty cannot be considered the perfect method for all pterygiums.
(7) Pterygium inversum unguis (PIU) is a digital anomaly characterized by adherence of the subungueal tissue to the ventral surface of the distal nail plates.
(8) Four patients with pterygium were treated postoperatively with surface irradiation using an Sr-90 contact device.
(9) The report stresses the importance of the differentiation between various genetic entities with multiple pterygium.
(10) The surgical technique and postoperative problem management of conjunctival autograft transplantation for advanced primary and recurrent pterygium are reviewed.
(11) A marked difference in the GAG composition was found: 78% of the total hexosamines of GAG from pterygium was glucosamine, whereas 98% of those of the conjunctiva was galactosamine.
(12) We present autopsy studies in 4 unrelated fetuses with the lethal multiple pterygium syndrome (LMPS) with special emphasis on the neuromuscular system.
(13) The result showed that opticrom 2% ophthalmic drops was most effective in controlling pterygium recurrence.
(14) The most prominent clinical features are large areas of scalp alopecia, soft subcutaneous craniofacial masses, lipomas, connective tissue nevi of the eyelids and surrounding areas, pterygium-like choriostoma of the ocular conjunctiva, mental retardation, motor deficit, and seizures.
(15) Because of these complications, 6 patients required a total of 20 return visits to the operating room after their original pterygium surgery.
(16) Operative indications are outlined: simple resection in very wild cases, conjunctival autoplasty in intermediate cases, actually the most frequent, lamellar keratoplasty, in so called "malignant" pterygium or recurrent pterygium.
(17) In order to investigate the correlation between the occurrence of pterygium and dryness of the eyes, a Schirmer's No.
(18) Ligneous conjunctivitis occurred unilaterally in a 74-year-old man after pterygium excision and only involved the bulbar conjunctiva.
(19) Fèvre-Languepin syndrome is a rare congenital malformation syndrome characterized in particular by the presence of a labio-maxillo-palatal cleft, anomalies of the reproductive organs and a bilateral popliteal pterygium.
(20) Treatment of popliteal pterygium involves special problems whem removing the skin fold because the nerve and vascular cords lie immediately anterior to the posterior fibrous cord.