Crossword clues for ophthalmia
ophthalmia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ophthalmia \Oph*thal"mi*a\ ([o^]f*th[a^]l"m[i^]*[.a]), n. [F. ophthalmie, L. ophthalmia, fr. Gr. 'ofqalmi`a, fr. 'ofqalmo`s the eye, akin to E. optic. See Optic.] (Med.) An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.
Syn: ophthalmitis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inflammation of the eye, conjunctivitis," late 14c., from Medieval Latin obtalmia, Old French obtalmie, from Late Latin ophthalmia, or directly from Greek ophthalmia, from ophthalmos (see ophthalmo-) + -ia.
Wiktionary
n. ophthalmitis
WordNet
n. severe conjunctivitis [syn: ophthalmitis]
Wikipedia
Ophthalmia (also called ophthalmitis) is inflammation of the eye. It is a medical sign which may be indicative of various conditions, including sympathetic ophthalmia (inflammation of both eyes following trauma to one eye), gonococcal ophthalmia, trachoma or " Egyptian" ophthalmia, ophthalmia neonatorum (a conjunctivitis of the newborn due to either of the two previous pathogens), photophthalmia and actinic conjunctivitis (inflammation resulting from prolonged exposure to ultraviolet rays), and others.
Usage examples of "ophthalmia".
The ophthalmia and keratitis were possibly caused by the irritating substances applied to the wound by the Chinese doctors.
When it was suggested that she write an article for publication, she sat down to her typewriter in her hotel room and wrote a column-length plea for action against ophthalmia neonatorum.
The low wet grounds were still undrained, and the number of cases of eye-disease which we find in the legends of miraculous cures point to the prevalence of ophthalmia brought on by damp and low living, as the army of lepers points to the filth and misery of the poor .
A soldier, fifteen years before his marriage, lost his left eye from purulent ophthalmia, and his two sons were microphthalmic on the same side.
This was a reference to ophthalmia neonatorum, the blindness of newborn infants caused by mothers infected with venereal disease.
Ophthalmia neonatorum was easily prevented by a solution of nitrate of silver dropped into each eye of the newborn child, she noted.
On a lobbying trip to North Carolina she persuaded the legislature to set up a commission for the blind, and she went to Washington to berate it for failure to require preventive measures against ophthalmia neonatorum, an old crusade.
As they depict him in their fevered treatises on illegitimacy, white-slave trading and ophthalmia neonatorum, the average male adult of the Christian and cultured countries leads a life of gaudy lubricity, rolling magnificently from one liaison to another, and with an almost endless queue of ruined milliners, dancers, charwomen, parlour-maids and waitresses behind him, all dying of poison and despair.
Bowman informs me that in the excessive photophobia, accompanying what is called scrofulous ophthalmia in children, when the light is so very painful that during weeks or months it is constantly excluded by the most forcible closure of the lids, he has often been struck on opening the lids by the paleness of the eye, --not an unnatural paleness, but an absence of the redness that might have been expected when the surface is somewhat inflamed, as is then usually the case.
Ophthalmia, particularly the disease of the ophthalmic nerve, is very common in the eastern States.
It has for long been used in secondary syphilis, diarrhoea, ulcerations, ophthalmia, and any conditions arising from a scrofulous constitution.
Externally, an infusion has been found useful in ophthalmia, and the tincture can be used as a local application for sprains, bruises, or skin diseases, alone, or in powder combined with an equal part of slippery elm bark and weak lye-water in a poultice.