(n.) The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surface EMGs at rest and at voluntary eyelid opening after eyelid closing were investigated.
(2) The goat isolates were obtained from animals with various disease conditions including respiratory tract disorders, vulvovaginitis, and wart-like lesions on the eyelid.
(3) One patient with the disease localised to the eyelid had normal EMG responses when monitored on the hand with ulnar nerve stimulation.
(4) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
(5) 200 patients who were diagnosed to have bacterial conjuntivitis (111 cases), corneal ulcers (39 cases), dacryocystitis (34 cases) or infections of the eyelids (16 cases) at the ophthalmology department of our university were taken as the patient group and there were 100 normal people in the control group.
(6) Paralytic lagophthalmos was corrected using gold weights inserted into the upper eyelid.
(7) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
(8) Because of the extensive soft-tissue and osseous involvement, all patients required composite resection of the orbit, the ethmoidal sinus, the orbital contents, and the soft tissue of the eyelids, brow, and temporal region.
(9) The authors report a new technique for the reconstruction of upper eyelid full thickness tissue losses in preserving the inferior edge.
(10) A 47-year-old white man in apparent good health had diplopia and swelling of the right upper eyelid.
(11) Inoculation into mouse eyelids produced intraocular, orbital, and lethal systemic chronic progressive inflammatory disease.
(12) Double composite grafting is a technique used in the repair of large (greater than 75%) eyelid defects due to tumor resection, trauma, or congenital coloboma.
(13) Some birds were subjected to unilateral eyelid-suture, a protocol which usually induces axial lengthening and corneal bulging.
(14) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(15) We hypothesize that the lower overnight swelling with the silicone lenses is a result of reduced resistance to oxygen flow from the eyelid capillaries to the corneal epithelial cells possibly due to decreased tear film thickness.
(16) The pinch technique has been found to be useful in repairing cosmetic eyelid deformities.
(17) The administration of these drugs was followed within 2-3 minutes by oedema of the eyelids and epiglottis, reduced peripheral circulation and central cyanosis.
(18) The eyelids not only protect the ocular globe, but also keep it wet and transparent.
(19) There is evidence that these artifacts may be the result of a combination of eyelid electrical activity and resistance effects.
(20) Within 2 months following birth the infants had facial acne and edema, swelling of the eyelids, loss of facial hair including eyelashes, and hyperpigmentation of the skin.
Palpebra
Definition:
(n.) The eyelid.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the same subject, also the ratio between the number of the muscle spindles found in m. rectus dorsalis and that of m. levator palpebrae superioris was examined.
(2) Bilateral palsy of the superior rectus and bilateral assymetrical palsy of the levator palpebrae muscles would result.
(3) The location of motoneurons innervating the musculus levator palpebrae superioris (LPS) was studied in the monkey (Macaca irus) by using Fast blue (FB) and propidium iodide (PI) as retrograde neuronal tracers.
(4) The data show that similar increases in levator palpebrae activity produce the upward lid movements that accompany upward saccadic eye movements as well as the upward phase of a blink.
(5) We describe two children with corneal epithelial defects resistant to healing in whom protective temporary ptosis was induced with type A botulinum toxin injected to the levator palpebrae superioris.
(6) The levator palpebrae superioris muscles from 12 cases of Marcus Gunn phenomenon were examined histologically by means of histochemistry and morphometry.
(7) Affected muscles are usually those of the pharynx, causing dysphagia, and the levator palpebra muscles.
(8) The levator palpebrae superioris contains three of the same ultrastructurally defined types of singly innervated muscle fiber found in the global layer of other extraocular muscles and an additional, unique slow-twitch fiber type.
(9) Two patients with diplopia presented with unilateral oculomotor palsy, defective elevation of the contralateral eye, and sparing of the levator palpebrae muscle.
(10) Excellent results were obtained using a modification of Grove's marginal myotomy procedure for lengthening the levator palpebrae superiorus muscle.
(11) The loop had a few branches of which the thick one supplied the M. levator palpebrae superioris and smaller ones innervated the anomalous ocular muscle from the ventral and sometimes dorsal sides.
(12) A simplified levator palpebrae superioris (LPS) muscle recession was performed to correct eyelid retraction in 56 eyelids of 48 patients.
(13) While levator palpebrae proved uninformative because of the massive fibrous degeneration of muscle, orbicularis oculi biopsies showed histochemical and ultrastructural alterations indicating a mitochondrial involvement, resembling that reported in ocular mitochondrial myopathies (OMM).
(14) A patient with longstanding dysthyroid eye disease developed a broad adhesion between the globe and the upper eyelid following simultaneous surgery to recess the levator palpebrae superioris and lateral rectus muscles.
(15) The clinical features of the individual (small stature and impaired mental development, hypoplastic thumbs, ptosis palpebrae hypoplastic external male genitalia, abnormal dermatoglphic pattern) did not conform to a specific phenotype.
(16) Botulinum toxin A produces a temporary, flaccid ptosis when injected into the levator palpebrae superioris muscle.
(17) Two patients underwent frontalis muscle sling surgery and a third underwent levator palpebrae superioris muscle resection.
(18) using special curved haemostat for the correction of mild to moderate acquired ptosis with good Levator Palpebrae Superioris (L.P.S.)
(19) The homogeneous opening of eye is obtained by a fascia lata transplant with an upside-down "y" shape that joins the tarsus with the levator palpebrae superioris muscle.
(20) There had been slowly progressive bilateral ptosis and there was almost no levator palpebra muscular activity left, resulting in extreme head tilt.