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Self-enucleation or auto-enucleation (oedipism) and other forms of serious self-inflicted eye injury are an extremely rare form of severe self-harm that usually results from mental illnesses involving acute psychosis. [2] The name comes from Oedipus of Greek mythology, who gouged out his own eyes. [3]
An ocular prosthesis, artificial eye or glass eye is a type of craniofacial prosthesis that replaces an absent natural eye following an enucleation, evisceration, or orbital exenteration. Someone with an ocular prosthesis is altogether blind on the affected side and has monocular (one sided) vision .
Autoenucleation, also known as oedipism, is the self-inflicted enucleation (removal) of the eye. It is considered a form of self-mutilation and is normally caused by psychosis, paranoid delusions or drugs. [1] Between 1968 and 2018, there were more than 50 documented cases of "complete or partial self-enucleation in English medical journals". [2]
An evisceration is the removal of the eye's contents, leaving the scleral shell intact. Usually performed to reduce pain in a blind eye. [13] An exenteration is the removal of the entire orbital contents, including the eye, extraocular muscles, fat, and connective tissues; usually for malignant orbital tumors. [14]
1 Removal of the eye. 2 Removal of oral cysts and tumors. 3 Removal of uterine ... enucleation refers to the surgical removal of a mass without cutting into or ...
Enucleation of an eye and, similarly, retinal damage, leads to a cascade of events in the cortical areas receiving visual input. Cortical GABAergic (GABA: Gamma-aminobutyric acid ) inhibition decreases, and cortical glutamatergic excitation increases, followed by increased visual excitability or even spontaneous activity in the visual cortex ...
Phthisis bulbi is a shrunken, [1] non-functional eye. It may result from severe eye disease, inflammation [2] or injury, or it may represent a complication of eye surgery. [3] Treatment options include insertion of a prosthesis, which may be preceded by enucleation of the eye. [4] [5]
Enucleation (surgery), the removal of a mass without cutting into or dissecting it Enucleation of the eye, removal of the eye that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact Self-enucleation, self-inflicted removal of the eye; Enucleation (microbiology), removing the nucleus of a cell and replacing it with a different nucleus