What's the difference between globe and staphyloma?
Globe
Definition:
(n.) A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
(n.) Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
(n.) The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.
(n.) A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.
(n.) A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.
(v. t.) To gather or form into a globe.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) "For a better world, not only for the Iranian people but for the next generation across the globe, I earnestly hope that President Rouhani will receive a warm welcome and meaningful responses during his visit to the UN."
(3) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
(4) The oblique interface between corneal and scleral stroma determines the appearance of the surgical limbus whose landmarks vary around the circumference of the globe but predictably correlate with structures of the anterior chamber angle.
(5) Levinson's film, to be titled Black Mass, will be based on the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob , by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
(6) In several other cases, MR provided information beyond that obtained with CT. MR has the advantage of providing exquisite anatomic detail in multiplanar images, and it appears to be more sensitive than CT in detecting small, subacute and chronic hemorrhage within soft-tissue masses in the orbit and in detecting ischemia of the globe.
(7) The relationships of age, gender, height, and weight to axial length of the globe were considered.
(8) The resection included the skin, globe, sphenoid wings, and orbitofrontal bone.
(9) Cat corneas were stored at refrigerator temperatures in M-K medium (TC-199, 5% dextran), modified M-K medium (TC-199, 1% chondroitin sulfate), or on the intact globe in moist chambers for intervals of one to nine days.
(10) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(11) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
(12) He said: “We have seen a huge increase in the amount of inquiries and activities across the globe.
(13) The method is especially suited for the treatment of detachments in globes with posterior staphylomas.
(14) The UK-Colombia bilateral investment treaty is one of thousands criss-crossing the globe but is the first Britain will have ratified since 2009.
(15) And it has left the international community floundering as it tries to respond to conflicts spilling across the globe.
(16) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
(17) It represents something of a vindication for Spielberg whose last high-minded awards contender, the first-world-war drama War Horse, failed to win anything at the last edition of either the Globes or the Oscars.
(18) "I don't think it will come as any surprise to anyone that the government is looking for alternative options and there certainly will be other players around the globe interested in this particular plant," Swinney told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.
(19) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(20) Significantly, the one thing that is making him worry is the Globe's stipulation that no English should be used – something that takes little account of how in India language itself has become globalised, along with so much else.
Staphyloma
Definition:
(n.) A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method is especially suited for the treatment of detachments in globes with posterior staphylomas.
(2) We report the case of a woman with neurofibromatosis and anterior scleral staphyloma.
(3) Enlargement of the ocular choroid crescent is an unusual angiographic finding and can be seen with intraocular expansile lesions such as unilateral axial high myopia with posterior staphyloma.
(4) The histopathological findings of the enucleated eye of a 6th child with alcohol embryopathy which was sent to us for examination and which revealed an anterior staphyloma with Peters' anomaly is also described.
(5) The clinical, CT, and histopathological features of congenital corneal staphyloma are discussed, as well as the possible pathogenic mechanisms.
(6) Histopathologic findings and percentage of eyes affected, in decreasing order of frequency, were myopic configuration of the optic nerve head, 37.7%; posterior staphyloma, 35.4%; degenerative changes of the vitreous, 35.1%; cobblestone degeneration, 14.3%; myopic degeneration of the retina, 11.4%; retinal detachment, 11.4%; retinal pits, holes, or tears, 8.1%; subretinal neovascularization, 5.2%; lattice degeneration, 4.9%; Fuchs spot, 3.2%; and lacquer cracks, 0.6%.
(7) The most frequent deformations of the globe encountered in pediatric ophthalmology are staphylomas and colobomas.
(8) A case of morning glory disc anomaly with pulsating peripapillary staphyloma is reported and the literature reviewed.
(9) A 42-year-old woman had a contractile staphyloma involving the peripapillary area of the fundus of the left eye.
(10) In evaluating the anatomic and functional status of 22 eyes of 14 patients demonstrating lacquer cracks, these lesions occurred in the eyes of young adults with posterior staphylomas and markedly increased axial lengths.
(11) The eyes with high myopia were divided into two groups; eyes showing only tigroid fundus (group 1) and those associated with posterior staphyloma involving the macula (group 2).
(12) A remarkably wide range of refractions and axial lengths were found for each staphyloma type.
(13) Even highly myopic eyes with moderate staphyloma can be treated successfully by this technique.
(14) A 49-year-old XYY man was found to have high myopia OU with unusual multiple retinal atrophic holes located in the posterior pole, unrelated to a posterior staphyloma or any other myopic degenerative changes.
(15) Our results show that peribulbar anesthesia can be effectively used for retinal reattachment surgery and probably should be the preferred form of local anesthesia for this surgery, since the eyes involved have a relatively high incidence of axial myopia and posterior staphyloma.
(16) Authors point out the contribution of the radiological examination that detects the typical lesions, the aspect of which changes characteristically very rapidly (from day to day), namely: aspect of frank pleurisy (common and very evocative), pyopneumothorax, pneumatocele, excavated staphylomas (abscesses), less frequently mediastinal pneumothorax or emphysema.
(17) A one-year-old boy presented with findings of ocular colobomas and staphylomas in both eyes.
(18) The effect, however, was localized and did not appear to block the overall progression of posterior staphyloma formation significantly.
(19) Peripheral fundus changes and posterior staphyloma formation are ophthalmoscopic evidences of this process.
(20) These echographical examinations enabled us to evaluate the following three criteria: staphyloma posticum, stiffness of the retina, and vitreous adhesions.