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2. Red eye (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Ophthalmology. A red eye is an eye that appears red due to illness or injury. It is usually injection and prominence of the superficial blood vessels of the conjunctiva, which may be caused by disorders of these or adjacent structures. Conjunctivitis and subconjunctival hemorrhage are two of the less serious but more common causes.

3. Conjunctivitis - Wikipedia

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   Conjunctivitis is the most common eye disease. [45] Rates of disease is related to the underlying cause which varies by the age as well as the time of year. Acute conjunctivitis is most frequently found in infants, school-age children and the elderly. [18] The most common cause of infectious conjunctivitis is viral conjunctivitis. [26]

4. Allergic conjunctivitis - Wikipedia

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   Allergic conjunctivitis ( AC) is inflammation of the conjunctiva (the membrane covering the white part of the eye) due to allergy. [ 1] Although allergens differ among patients, the most common cause is hay fever. Symptoms consist of redness (mainly due to vasodilation of the peripheral small blood vessels ), edema (swelling) of the conjunctiva ...

5. Episcleritis - Wikipedia

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   Episcleritis is a benign, self-limiting inflammatory disease affecting part of the eye called the episclera. The episclera is a thin layer of tissue that lies between the conjunctiva and the connective tissue layer that forms the white of the eye ( sclera ). Episcleritis is a common condition, and is characterized by the abrupt onset of ...

6. Uveitis - Wikipedia

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   Uveitis. Uveitis ( / ˌjuːvi.aɪtɪs /) is inflammation of the uvea, the pigmented layer of the eye between the inner retina and the outer fibrous layer composed of the sclera and cornea. [ 1] The uvea consists of the middle layer of pigmented vascular structures of the eye and includes the iris, ciliary body, and choroid.

7. Tay–Sachs disease - Wikipedia

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   The disease is named after British ophthalmologist Waren Tay, who in 1881 first described a symptomatic red spot on the retina of the eye; and American neurologist Bernard Sachs, who described in 1887 the cellular changes and noted an increased rate of disease in Ashkenazi Jews. [6] Carriers of a single Tay–Sachs allele are typically normal. [2]

8. CDC confirms red eyes at the pool are caused by urine, not ...

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   Those red eyes you get from swimming aren't caused by chlorine, according to an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. %shareLinks-quote="Chlorine binds with all the things ...

9. Kearns–Sayre syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Kearns–Sayre syndrome ( KSS), oculocraniosomatic disorder or oculocranionsomatic neuromuscular disorder with ragged red fibers is a mitochondrial myopathy with a typical onset before 20 years of age. KSS is a more severe syndromic variant of chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (abbreviated CPEO), a syndrome that is characterized by ...