Kazakh-English Electronic Explanatory Dictionary of Ophthalmology Terms
Sulfacetamide Sodium
Sulfonamides inhibit multiplication of bacteria by acting as competitive inhibitors of p-aminobenzoic acid in the folic acid metabolism cycle. Bacterial …
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Surgical diathermy (redirected from diathermocoagulation)
The use of high-frequency electromagnetic currents as a form of physical therapy and in surgical procedures. The term diathermy is …
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Strabismus
That condition inwhich the eyes are not parallel for distantvision. The visual axis of one eye only is di- rected …
Ophthalmic Dictionary including pronunciation, derivation and definition of the words used in Optometry and Ophthalmology by James J. Lewis, Oph. D. Professor of Optometry in the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology, Chicago.
Silver nitrate
A poisonous colorless crystalline compound, AgNO3, that becomes grayish black when exposed to light in the presence of organic matter …
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Sympathetic ophthalmia
severe inflammation of the eye or of the conjunctiva or deeper structures of the eye.
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Spectacles or eyeglasses
a pair oflenses for correcting faulty vision, in aframe that rests on thebridge ofthenose and hooks behind theears.
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Semilunar fold
Acrescent-shaped fold ofconjunctiva located at theinner canthus lateral to thecaruncle. It isavestigial structure that represents thethird eyelid or nictitating membrane …
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Siderosis of the eye
nothing like the deposition of iron salts in the tissues of the eye. With siderosis, all the tissues of the …
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Symblepharon
Adhesion of thelids to the eyeball. This develops whenevertwo opposed spots of the conjunctiva of the lid and of the …
Ophthalmic Dictionary including pronunciation, derivation and definition of the words used in Optometry and Ophthalmology by James J. Lewis, Oph. D. Professor of Optometry in the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology, Chicago.
Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO)
is a granulomatous uveitis (a kind of inflammation) of both eyes following trauma
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