(a.) Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.
(n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(2) 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.
(3) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(4) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
(6) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(7) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(8) The relationship of the ocular findings to his metabolic disease is discussed.
(9) Fibronectin level in the ocular drainage system of humans grows with ageing and rapidly increases at different stages of primary open-angle glaucoma development.
(10) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
(11) There was intrathoracic involvement in 74% of patients, upper respiratory tract disease in 54%, reticulo-endothelial involvement in 54%, bone cysts in 43% and ocular lesions in 37%.
(12) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
(13) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(14) Although active head movements reversed horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes, vertical vestibulo-ocular reflexes in light and darkness were normal.
(15) The problems of the eye associated with amaurosis fugax, ischaemia optic neuropathy and chronic ocular ischaemia are presented and the possibility of treatment is discussed.
(16) Quantitative cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry were used to monitor T-2 toxin induced alterations in chromatin and neuronal nuclear volume in supraoptic-magnocellular neurons of rat hypo-thalami.
(17) Ocular disorders had been found in 62% of the cases, commonly represented by blindness of one eye, decreased vision, papillar edema and eventually by occlusion of the retineal artery.
(18) Leukotrienes may play a role in the early inflammatory response following concussive ocular injuries.
(19) Two strikingly similar brothers issued from consanguineous parents in the second degree present the following patterns of anomalies: retardation of growth, mental deficiency, ocular abnormalities, pectus excavatum and camptodactyly.
(20) The cavernous sinus is often involved pathologically, which can cause ocular motor nerve palsies with or without facial sensory disturbances.
Oculist
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical aspects of the chronic congenital postencephalitic toxoplasma is so clear for the oculist.
(2) In 1751 the oculist Joseph Hillmer was expelled as charlatan from Petersburg by an expert opinion, which was founded on 125 case reports on his Russian clients, amongst them 60 suffering from cataracts, which had been couched on 80 eyes.
(3) About 1795, the oculist Casaamata tried to put into effect Tadini's idea.
(4) The oculists who visited Berlin had demonstrated this new surgical method at least 15 years earlier.
(5) In addition to his teaching activities--from 1778 to 1803 he was Professor of Economics, Public Finances and Political Science--Jung-Stilling remained a well-known oculist and an outstanding cataract surgeon to the end of his life.
(6) We know quite a lot about the life of the oculist Joseph Hillmer of Vienna between 1746-1775, especially from newspapers of that time.
(7) 40 patients with idiopathic optic neuritis (ON) between 1st January 1967 and 31st December 1977 have been checked again from oculistic and neurological point of view between 1st January and 31st March 1983.
(8) The oculist should be consulted however, to exclude possible retinopathia.
(9) In all these patients the oculist had considered carotid artery stenosis to be a possible reason for the present eye disease or visual disturbance.
(10) On the basis of the data supplied, a continuous, increasingly assiduous clinico-experimental give-and-take between oculist and gynaecologist is recommended to prevent possible eye complications.
(11) The work of Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling (1740-1817), the "Oculist of the Age of Goethe", is also a world of the eye and of light.
(12) All children with rheumatoid uveitis require dispensarization under constant control of the oculist and rheumatologist, this allowing to decrease the number of complications of the process, to decide on optimal terms for surgical treatment of the seguelae of the disease and to conduct corresponding pathogenetic therapy.
(13) The development of ophthalmology in Münster is described from the itinerant oculists and sooth-sayers of the middle ages to the completion of the enlargements to the eye clinic in the year 1977.
(14) In case of treating facial injuries the cooperation of the oculist, the laryngologist, the odontologist, the neurosurgeon is indispensable.
(15) Andrew Sexton Gray was born in Limerick, Ireland, medically trained in Dublin, and was assistant to William Wilde, the distinguished oculist and aurist.
(16) At any rate, Casanova's memoirs record a meeting with Tadini and make mention of the oculist's box of artificial glass lenses for placement in the eye.
(17) There is much to indicate that she was motivated by tactical diplomacy, since the oculist had been involved in such matters by the Prussian king during the preliminaries to the Third Silestan War (1756-1763).
(18) In 1751 a German oculist, Joseph Hillmer, has been expelled from Petersburg, for the reason that he was a charlatan.
(19) While we do not have the operative tables that allow us to perform that inclination as low as oculists are used to operate sitting and with microscope, we suggest a simple way to obtain the inclination in a common low stretcher, with a triangular pillow.
(20) John Taylor was surgeon-oculist to King George II, and claimed to be Ophthalmiater Royal to the Pope and to the Emperor, along with a multitude of royalties, including a mythical Princess of Georgia and the Viceroy of the Indies.