(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.
Ophthalmic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(2) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(3) Retrobulbar anesthesia has become the most common form of anesthesia used in ophthalmic surgery.
(4) Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a distinct clinical entity, with ophthalmic involvement in 10% of patients.
(5) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(6) Description of the ophthalmic signs and ocular results.
(7) Stable normalization of the ophthalmic tone and stabilization of the process were achieved in 60 eyes (89.2%).
(8) Results indicate that topical administration of insulin-containing ophthalmic solution, either alone at the concentrations used or in combination with surface-acting agents, did not result in effective absorption of insulin across the conjunctival and lacrimal nasal mucosa in biologically relevant quantities.
(9) Fractal geometry offers a more accurate description of ocular anatomy and pathology than classical geometry, and provides a new language for posing questions about the complex geometrical patterns that are seen in ophthalmic practice.
(10) HRP-labeled corneal afferent somata were located in the dorsal part of the ophthalmic region of the ipsilateral trigeminal ganglion.
(11) It is emphasized that patients after ophthalmic herpes should be kept under dispensary observation.
(12) All of the patients with ophthalmic manifestations had either bone marrow relapse or central nervous system leukaemia.
(13) Ophthalmic examinations were performed for determining the suitability of seven different types of non-ophthalmic ultrasound equipments for ophthalmological purposes.
(14) Advances of therapeutic strategies in the management of critically ill patients have resulted in an increased life expectancy and more frequent presentations to ophthalmic surgeons.
(15) This was because 71% of the ophthalmic arteries arose from the supero-medial aspect of the ICA, and because there was nothing to intercept the view of the medial aspect of the ICA under the optic nerve.
(16) In order to evaluate Graves' ophthalmopathy new CT parameters have been introduced such as: the diameters of the five extraocular muscles, the value of their addition, the grade of apical crowding, the enlargement of optic nerve sheaths and of the superior ophthalmic vein, and the anterior displacement of the lacrimal gland.
(17) One patient later developed a moderately severe congestive ophthalmopathy, and repeated selective carotid arteriograms showed that the shunt was now draining anteriorly into the superior ophthalmic vein.
(18) The dosimetry of ophthalmic plaques designed to hold iridium-192 or iodine-125 seeds is investigated experimentally and by means of a computer model.
(19) None of the available treatment methods has been fully satisfactory, and every effort should be made to prevent eye lesions in patients with early infection of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve.
(20) Illustrative cases are given describing the successful treatment of aneurysms arising at the origin of the ophthalmic artery, within the cavernous sinus, within the sella turcica, and from the vertebrobasilar and the posterior inferior cerebellar arteries ventral to the brain stem.