(n.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
(n.) The rainbow.
(n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
(n.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
(n.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.
(n.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(2) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
(3) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
(4) A 1.5-year-old girl presented with a peripheral iris mass.
(5) In normal as well as in cirrhotic subjects somatostatin infusion provoked a marked reduction of the IRI plasma level and this was uninfluenced by subsequent glucagon administration.
(6) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(7) Adrenergic desensitization of the eye resulted in attenuation of: The polyphosphoinositide response in the iris, measured both as loss of 32P-radioactivity from phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and as IP3 accumulation; the epinephrine-stimulated liberation of AA, from membrane phosphoinositides and other phospholipids, and PGE2 release in the iris; and the epinephrine-induced muscle contraction in the iris dilator.
(8) ChAT activities of the iris, adrenal gland, and superior cervical ganglion were similar in all groups.
(9) Plasma glucose, insulin (IRI), glucagon (IRG) and SRIF-LI were measured.
(10) The appearance in aqueous humor of selected metabolites of arachidonic acid metabolism at various times was correlated with the influx of protein and myeloperoxidase activity in the iris-ciliary body.
(11) A decrease in the levels of IRI, C-peptide and biological activity of serum insulin in the 1st group indicated a possibility of type I diabetes mellitus in such patients.
(12) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(13) Iris prolapse did not interfere with the procedure.
(14) While there are many potential causative factors, erroneous concepts of IOL positioning and design appear to have led to PBK with many iris-supported and anterior chamber lens styles.
(15) Examples include the specific pattern of hypodontia seen before the development of iris dysplasia in Rieger syndrome, and the presence of supernumerary teeth and facial osteomas preceding malignant transformation of intestinal polyps in Gardner syndrome.
(16) Soft lenses also provide the options of disposability and of iris color change.
(17) Fluorescence angiography of the iris was performed on 135 patients with diabetes mellitus.
(18) These increases paralleled the in vitro rise in iris [3H]norepinephrine ([3H]NE) uptake, a measure of the presence of functional nerve terminal membrane.
(19) Pigmentations are significantly related to the colour of the iris (visible in 8% of blue irides, against in 40% of brown).
(20) Plasma C-peptide immunoreactivity (CPR) and immunoreactive insulin (IRI) increased during the infusion.
Synechia
Definition:
(n.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 20 patients (18.2%), visualization revealed uterine abnormalities, mainly newly added endometrial lesions, i.e., hyperplasia, polyps, endometritis, and synechiae.
(2) Posterior synechiae, pupil deformations, grave uveitis with hypotonia of 4-10 mm Hg are rapidly developing.
(3) No true ependymal defects occurred even in extensive hydrocephalus except at the sites of the ventricular synechiae which sometimes ruptured.
(4) However, when the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve is affected, the ocular disease (ophthalmic zoster), although also usually mild and self-limited, may have severe complications (corneal scarring, glaucoma, iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, scleritis, motor disturbances, optic neuritis, retinitis, anterior segment necrosis, and phthisis bulbi and servere postherpetic neuralgia).
(5) Only limited results were obtained in fertility in cases of muscular or fibrous synechia.
(6) The differences between the 2 eyes were not statistically significant so far as the amount of astigmatism, final visual acuity, and peripheral anterior synechiae were concerned.
(7) Results show that 31.4% of cases in which there was a thickening of the endometrial echopattern correspond to the presence of polyp, myoma, synechia with atrophic endometrium.
(8) CO2-laser caused one laryngeal oedema and synechia of the anterior commisure of the vocal laryngeal cords in one other case.
(9) The most common factors preventing optical examination were opacity of the aqueous humor and posterior synechia.
(10) Corneal endothelial proliferation over the iris was studied on experimental anterior synechiae in rabbits up to 6 months.
(11) Postkeratoplasty glaucoma was also strongly associated with peripheral anterior synechiae formation seen after keratoplasty.
(12) All findings of synechiae were treated hysteroscopically.
(13) Posterior synechiae are prevented by leaving the anterior capsule intact and in apposition with the posterior iris surface, assuring a round, mobile pupil.
(14) Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is one of the most severe hereditary mechano-bullous diseases, characterized by scarring blister formation, nail dystrophy and onycholysis, cutaneous contractures, synechiae, mutilations of the hands and feet and oesophageal stenosis.
(15) Use of this method resulted in 20 of 24 (83%) rabbit eyes maintaining technically successful clear grafts without anterior synechiae or angle-closure glaucoma for up to 3 months postoperatively.
(16) Throughout the entire follow-up (12 weeks) we found less induced posterior synechias in the eyes with hydrophilized lenses than in those with untreated lenses (P = .009).
(17) The authors conclude that the hysterography is exact diagnostic method for confirming the effect of treatment of synechiae in the uterine cavity with suitable intrauterine loops.
(18) The reasons for regrafting were incomplete epithelialization of the donor cornea by the host, poor donor material, and ring synechiae with secondary glaucoma.
(19) Lymphocyte karyotyping of an infant girl with the clinical features of microphthalmia, iridoschisis, goiter, hip joint dysplasia, labium synechia and craniotabes revealed an Xp deletion.
(20) Abnormal associated findings included: cleft palate, hypoplastic low-set ears, bilateral synechiae of the first and second toes, incomplete fusion of both eyelids, and dystrophic nails.