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Definition of Ophthalmoplegia
1. Noun. Paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye.
Definition of Ophthalmoplegia
1. Noun. (medicine) A complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Ophthalmoplegia
1. Paralysis of the ocular muscles, innervated by the oculomotor, trochlear, and abducens nerves. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophthalmoplegia
Literary usage of Ophthalmoplegia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"COMPLETE EXTERIOR ophthalmoplegia FOLLOWING AN ATTACK OF SEVERE COUGHING By GE
de Schweinitz, MD, and WG Spiller, MD Exterior ophthalmoplegia developing ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"ophthalmoplegia Interna Traumatica.—Ernst Schultze reports a case in ...
ophthalmoplegia interna is mostly found with tabes and paralysis caused by lues. ..."
3. Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim, Edward E. Mayer (1904)
"ophthalmoplegia. Paralysis of the ocular muscles occurs in various conditions
... ACUTE ophthalmoplegia is an affection which is chiefly due to infection ..."
4. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"ophthalmoplegia OR PARALYSIS OF THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MUSCLES OF THE
EYEBALL).—This condition depends not upon disorder of function of any single ..."
5. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"We have ourselves lately met with a patient who presented total bilateral
ophthalmoplegia, in whom the condition had existed without the slightest change ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Paralysis of the eye-muscles, usually total ophthalmoplegia, soon sets in; M.
sphincter iridis and M. levator palpebrae superioris sometimes escape). ..."
7. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"Although the term "ophthalmoplegia" might with perfect propriety be used to describe
... ophthalmoplegia may be divided into acute ophthalmoplegia or acute ..."
8. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"... of ophthalmoplegia externa and interna was due to extensive syphilitic ...
uncomplicated ophthalmoplegia interna of one eye yielded to the iodide, ..."
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