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Definition of Posterior synechia
1. Noun. Adhesion between the iris and the lens.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posterior Synechia
Literary usage of Posterior synechia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1858)
"Graefe asserts (a) in proof of the affirmative, that iritis, cured without
posterior synechia, rarely recurs ; that with slight ..."
2. Selected monographs: Kussmaul and Tenner on Epileptiform Convulsions from by Albrecht von Graefe, Adolf Kussmaul, Adolf Tenner, Albrecht Wagner (1859)
"Iritis cured without posterior synechia seldom evinces any tendency to recur.
... Sometimes both sides recovered without posterior synechia, and then no ..."
3. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1908)
"This filament is not a posterior synechia, but a remnant of the fetal pupillary
membrane. It does not prevent the iris from retracting properly under ..."
4. Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye by Andrew Maitland Ramsay (1898)
"Fig. 4. Later stage—pupil filled with Exudation. page 128. Fig. 5. Complete posterior
Synechia and Degeneration of the Iris. page 128. ..."
5. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1897)
"If the entire pupillary margin have become adherent, the condition is termed
complete posterior synechia, circular posterior synechia, ring synechia, ..."
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