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An eye poke, eye jab, eye stab, eye strike or poke in the eye is a strike at the eye or eyes of a human or animal. It is typically made with the fingers which may either be forked to jab both eyes or held together, like a bird's beak, to strike with force and protect the fingers from damage.
The mythical Oedipus gouged his eyes out. 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]
Eye-gouging is the act of pressing or tearing the eye using the fingers or instruments. Eye-gouging involves a very high risk of eye injury , such as eye loss or blindness. Eye-gouging as a fighting style was once a popular form of sport fighting in the back-country United States , primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Indiana Fever star, 22, suffered a black eye after she was poked in the eye by the Connecticut Sun’s Dijonai Carrington during a three-point attempt early in the game’s first quarter.
In cases of sympathetic ophthalmia (inflammation of the eye) to prevent travel to the other eye, which, if untreated, can cause blindness; Constant infection in a blind or otherwise useless eye; Painful, blind eye; Severe injury of the eye when the eye cannot be saved or attempts to save the eye have failed, such as after a globe rupture
At UFC 302 on Saturday, the new gloves finally made their fighting debut. Any hope that they would lower the frequency of eye pokes seemed to get dashed during the very first fight of the night.
Corneal abrasions are generally a result of trauma to the surface of the eye. Common causes include being poked by a finger, walking into a tree branch, and wearing old contact lenses. [citation needed] A foreign body in the eye may also cause a scratch if the eye is rubbed. [citation needed]
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