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  2. Cataract - Wikipedia

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    [83] [84] As rapidly running water turns white, so the term may have been used metaphorically to describe the similar appearance of mature ocular opacities. In Latin, cataracta had the alternative meaning " portcullis " [ 85 ] and the name possibly passed through French to form the English meaning "eye disease" (early 15th century), on the ...

  3. Central serous chorioretinopathy - Wikipedia

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    Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC or CSCR), also known as central serous retinopathy (CSR), is an eye disease that causes visual impairment, often temporary, usually in one eye. [1] [2] When the disorder is active it is characterized by leakage of fluid under the retina that has a propensity to accumulate under the central macula.

  4. Superior oblique myokymia - Wikipedia

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    Superior oblique myokymia is a neurological disorder affecting vision and was named by Hoyt and Keane in 1970. [1]It is a condition that presents as repeated, brief episodes of movement, shimmering or shaking of the vision of one eye, a feeling of the eye trembling, or vertical/tilted vision.

  5. Elton John reveals 'limited vision in one eye' caused by ...

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    The 77-year-old singer shared healing is "an extremely slow process" as he waits for sight to return to one of his eyes but is "feeling positive." Elton John reveals 'limited vision in one eye ...

  6. Amaurosis fugax - Wikipedia

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    Amaurosis fugax (Ancient Greek: ἀμαύρωσις, amaurosis meaning 'darkening', 'dark', or 'obscure', Latin: fugax meaning 'fleeting') is a painless temporary loss of vision in one or both eyes. [ 3 ]

  7. Sympathetic ophthalmia - Wikipedia

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    Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO), also called spared eye injury, is a diffuse granulomatous inflammation of the uveal layer of both eyes following trauma to one eye. It can leave the affected person completely blind. Symptoms may develop from days to several years after a penetrating eye injury. It typically results from a delayed hypersensitivity ...

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    #7 A Melanistic Asian Water Monitor (Varanus Salvator) ... #28 This Is Rexy, He Was Born With A Split Nose. We Run A Cattery With Lots Of Cats. ... Born With One Eye And Was At Risk Of Being ...

  9. Aqueous humour - Wikipedia

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    An important risk factor is increased intraocular pressure (pressure within the eye) either through increased production or decreased outflow of aqueous humour. [8] Increased resistance to outflow of aqueous humour may occur due to an abnormal trabecular meshwork or due to obliteration of the meshwork resulting from injury or disease of the iris.