(a.) Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.
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Phthisis
Definition:
(n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anatomic success (absence of phthisis bulbi, enucleation, or conjunctival flap) was achieved in 20 eyes (87%).
(2) The second cyst was excised by cryoextraction 6 weeks after the initial surgery, but the eye developed an inoperable retinal detachment and phthisis bulbi.
(3) 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).
(4) While there is an apparent high complication rate, visual loss and phthisis cannot be ascribed directly to the procedure, since these are eyes with a poor prognosis.
(5) Two of the four individuals with intraocular extension presented with phthisis bulbi.
(6) On final examination, intraocular pressure in 16 (32%) of the eyes was greater than 26 mm Hg and in 17 (34%), less than or equal to 25 mm Hg; 17 (34%) developed phthisis bulbi.
(7) Two years later, with a visual acuity of hand motions and signs of phthisis bulbi, he had a vitrectomy that cleared the media to reveal a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
(8) The postoperative complications were glaucoma (23 eyes, 15%), phthisis (14 eyes, 8%), secondary pupillary membranes (11 eyes, 6%), and retinal detachment (six eyes, 3%).
(9) Fifteen years after a partial maxillectomy and radiation therapy for left antral carcinoma, a 53-year-old woman presented to the Eye Plastics and Orbit Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, with phthisis and a large, black corneal lesion in the left eye.
(10) The major postoperative complication was phthisis bulbi, found in ten eyes (21%).
(11) None of the eyes has thus far been lost as a result of neovascular glaucoma or painful phthisis.
(12) An ocular prosthesis fitted over phthisis bulbi or a discolored blind eye of near normal size is a positive approach to improve the cosmetic appearance and psychological well-being of the patient.
(13) Of the total number of 17 eyes, 16 present retinoma, 1 phthisis bulbi.
(14) Retinoma and phthisis bulbi of retinoblastoma are rare entities found in retinoblastoma patients and their relatives.
(15) Enucleation or phthisis was observed in seven (54%) of the eyes in the nonvitrectomy group compared with only five (18%) in the vitrectomy group.
(16) Our results suggest that intraocular pressure and outflow are functions of both the intensity of irradiation and the surface area treated, and that each individual pressure head may require an optimal pars plana area of treatment of therapeutic degree to lower pressure and yet prevent overfiltration and phthisis.
(17) In the wake of the bacterial revolution after Robert Koch identified the tuberculosis bacillus, medical and public health professionals classified the various forms of consumption and phthisis as a single disease--tuberculosis.
(18) Complications included hyphema (18%), "kissing" choroidal effusion (6%), blocked tube (8%), flat anterior chamber (12%), cataracts (5%), Tenon's cyst (encapsulated bleb) (17%), uveitis (7%), phthisis bulbi (5%), and erosion of the silicone tube (1%).
(19) Several quis-treated eyes developed phthisis bulbi however, and thus could not be included among those assessed for eye weight and dimensional measurements.
(20) Severe complications included phthisis bulbi in 11% of cyclocryotherapy and severe visual loss in 20% with cyclodialysis and 14% with cyclocryotherapy.