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Definition of Detachment of the retina

1. Noun. Visual impairment resulting from the retina becoming separated from the choroid in the back of the eye; treated by photocoagulation.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detachment Of The Retina

Literary usage of Detachment of the retina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"detachment of the retina, being secondary to retraction of the vitreous, presupposes antecedent disease of that body. The fact that the lesion is ..."

2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1893)
"In 1870 Von Wecker stated that detachment of the retina was generally, if not always, preceded by both detachment of the vitreous and laceration of the ..."

3. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"In detachment of the retina a corresponding limitation of the field will then be ... In that form of detachment of the retina which is produced by active ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Vail, DT: Detachment of the Retina. Arch. Ophth., 1920, xlix, 553. Vail states again a theory of his own regarding the etiology of detachment of the retina ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"Treatment of Detachment of the Retina.—Dr. Nutten- dorf, of New York, describes the treatment he has adopted during the last three years in very severe ..."

6. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology by Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1901)
"The mechanical theory, on which it was put forward that the elongation of the eyeball which takes place in myopia, caused detachment of the retina, ..."

7. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1897)
"The cysticercus may move from its original position, and in so doing cause considerable detachment of the retina. Delicate veil-Kke opacities are apt to ..."

8. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1892)
"THE views of Schüler' are based upon the modern theory of the causation or origin of detachment of the retina, which was first clearly and anatomically ..."

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