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  2. Scleritis - Wikipedia

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    Scleritis is a serious inflammatory disease that affects the white outer coating of the eye, known as the sclera. The disease is often contracted through association with other diseases of the body, such as granulomatosis with polyangiitis or rheumatoid arthritis .

  3. Episcleritis - Wikipedia

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    Episcleritis of a 40 year old female. Symptoms of episcleritis typically include painless redness of the eye (mild pain is possible but atypical), and watery eyes. [2] The pain of episcleritis is typically mild, less severe than in scleritis, [3] and may be tender to palpation.

  4. List of systemic diseases with ocular manifestations - Wikipedia

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    An ocular manifestation of a systemic disease is an eye condition that directly or indirectly results from a disease process in another part of the body. There are many diseases known to cause ocular or visual changes.

  5. Sclera - Wikipedia

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    Redness of the sclera is typically caused by eye irritation causing blood vessels to expand, such as in conjunctivitis ("pink eye"). Episcleritis is a generally benign condition of the episclera causing eye redness. Scleritis is a serious inflammatory disease of the sclera causing redness of the sclera often progressing to purple.

  6. Optic papillitis - Wikipedia

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    Inflammation of the optic nerve head is called "papillitis" or "intraocular optic neuritis"; inflammation of the orbital portion of the nerve is called "retrobulbar optic neuritis" or "orbital optic neuritis". [1] It is often associated with substantial losses in visual fields, pain on moving the globe, and sensitivity to light pressure on the ...

  7. Chemosis - Wikipedia

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    It is usually caused by allergies or viral infections, often inciting excessive eye rubbing. Chemosis is also included in the Chandler Classification system of orbital infections. If chemosis has occurred due to excessive rubbing of the eye, the first aid to be given is a cold water wash for eyes. [citation needed] Other causes of chemosis include:

  8. Orbit (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    There are two important foramina, or windows, two important fissures, or grooves, and one canal surrounding the globe in the orbit. There is a supraorbital foramen, an infraorbital foramen, a superior orbital fissure, an inferior orbital fissure and the optic canal, each of which contains structures that are crucial to normal eye functioning.

  9. Orbital cellulitis - Wikipedia

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    Orbital cellulitis is inflammation of eye tissues behind the orbital septum. It is most commonly caused by an acute spread of infection into the eye socket from either the adjacent sinuses or through the blood. It may also occur after trauma. When it affects the rear of the eye, it is known as retro-orbital cellulitis.