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Definition of Blepharospasm
1. Noun. Spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye.
Definition of Blepharospasm
1. Noun. (medicine) A physiological condition characterized by recurring involuntary twitches or closing of the eyelids. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blepharospasm
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Medical Definition of Blepharospasm
1. Twitching of an eyelid. Often benign and related to emotional stress, sleep deprivation or the use of stimulants (for example amphetamines, caffeine, nicotine, decongestants). (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blepharospasm
Literary usage of Blepharospasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Orbicularis. he Orbicularis (blepharospasm"'). This manifests itself by a squeezing
of the lids tightly together. It is either a symptom accompanying other ..."
2. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1880)
"THE TREATMENT OF OBSTINATE CASES OF blepharospasm, BY FORCED DILATATION OF ...
blepharospasm is, as its name indicates, a spasm of the sphincter muscle of ..."
3. Ophthalmology and Ophthalmoscopy: For Practitioners and Students of Medicine by Hermann Schmidt-Rimpler, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1889)
"blepharospasm. Spasmodic contraction of the orbicularis closes the eye; ...
blepharospasm is found most frequently in inflammatory affections of the eye, ..."
4. A Text-book of the Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals by Oscar Victor Brumley (1921)
"blepharospasm.— Definition.—A tonic or clonic spasm of the eyelids. ...
Clonic blepharospasm is observed in dogs following distemper when chorea-like ..."
5. Lessons on the eye, for the use of undergraduate students by Frank Laramore Henderson (1903)
"In old age a tonic blepharospasm, which resists all treatment, may occur (Fuchs).
5. ... There is a clonic form of blepharospasm corresponding with tic ..."
6. Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms by Matthias Lanckton Foster (1917)
"blepharospasm blepharospasm is an abnormal closure of the lids produced by a ...
A tonic blepharospasm commonly indicates trouble on the surface of the eye, ..."
7. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"blepharospasm. The reflex action by which the eyelids arc closed, often assumes
the form of tonic spasm, and is then termed ..."
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