What's the difference between leucoma and leukoma?
Leucoma
Definition:
(n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histologically, this presented as an adherent leucoma with partial loss of intraocular contents (retina, iris, and lens), intraocular bone undergoing haematopoiesis, a small granulomatous lesion with foreign body adjacent to the optic nerve in the dural sheath, and gliosis of the optic nerve.
(2) It was found that the commonest causes of blindness in order of frequency were glaucoma (31%), cataract (18.4%), optic atrophy (16.3%), onchocerciasis (4.9%), and corneal leucoma (4.9%).
(3) At least 8 months of follow-up were available for 19 eyes, including aphakic glaucoma, 8 eyes; neovascular glaucoma, 2 eyes; previous failed filter, 6 eyes; total collapse of the anterior chamber with leucoma adherence, 1 eye; glaucoma due to mesodermal dysgenesis, 1 eye; and juvenile glaucoma, 1 eye (whose fellow eye had received twice failed filtering procedures).
(4) The visual acuity was 0.5 or better in 66%, 0.7 or better in 45%, less than 0.1 in 3 patients because of vitreous opacity and corneal leucoma.
(5) The relative rarity of herpetic dendritic ulcers and corneal dystrophies are highlighted while the major indication for keratoplasty in southern Nigeria is leucoma associated with measles or trauma.
(6) But this method is useful in the treatment of vascularized leucoma because it shows us the exact locus where the laser must be applied before the corneal graft is made.
(7) One observed as acceleration of the regeneration processes in active inflammatory conditions of the anterior eye segment; instead the cases of leucoma and corneal opacities did not show any clinical effect.
(8) To date, the most important indications for fitting the Hema contact less with an iris structure have been aniridia, albinism, iris coloboma, essential iris atrophy, and leucoma corneae.
(9) The main causes of low visual acuity were: corneal leucoma, secondary glaucoma, complicated cataract.
(10) -- Finally repeated grafts on severe leucomas (burns, leucoma adherens, inflammatory keratopathies with active neovascularisation, etc.