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It is a procedure to remove an inflammatory benign growth that originates in a sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
What is excision of a chalazion?
This is a medical condition which usually affects older adults and results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field.
What is Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
This is a transparent cover over the anterior part of the eye that serves several purposes, such as protection, refraction, and filtration of some ultraviolet light.
What is the cornea?
An eye condition in which your eyelashes grow the wrong way, toward your eye rather than away from it.
What is trichiasis?
This is a clouding that develops in the lens capsule, varying in degree from slight to complete opacity and obstructing the passage of light.
What is a cataract?
A procedure performed to create a channel from which the aqueous humor may drain from the anterior chamber for the treatment of glaucoma
What is a trabeculectomy?
This is a vision condition that causes blurred vision due either to the irregular shape of the cornea or the lens, which prevents light from being properly focused on the retina.
What is Astigmatism?
The opening at the center of the iris through which light passes.
What is the pupil?
Abnormal inversion of the lower lid margins causes the eyelashes to rub against the cornea resulting in irritation, pain, and chronic tears.
What is an entropian?
What is Dry Eye Syndrome?
The removal of the eye from the orbit and involves the separation of all tissue connections between the globe and the orbit.
What is enucleation?
This is a condition in which distant objects are usually seen clearly, but close ones do not come into proper focus. "Farsightedness" occurs if your eyeball is too short or the cornea has too little curvature.
What is Hyperopia?
The clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina.
What is the vitreous?
An excess of skin in the upper or lower eyelid.
What is dermatochalasis?
A condition in which one eye is turned in a direction that's different from the other eye.
What is strabismus?
A surgery performed when the sensory layer of the retina becomes separated from the pigmented epithelial layer with the goal to restore the layers to their normal positions and prevent blindness.
In simpler words, surgery for Retinal Detachment.
What is Scleral Buckle?
In this condition, there is reduced aqueous humor flow through the trabecular meshwork of the canal of Schlemm, causing decreased absorption and increased pressure in the eye which leads to optic nerve damage.
What is Open-Angle Glaucoma?
A tissue located in the anterior chamber angle of the eye, and it is a crucial determinant of intraocular pressure values because of its resistance to the evacuation of aqueous humor from the eye.
What is the trabecular meshwork?
Occurs when tiny oil glands near the base of the eyelashes become clogged, causing irritation and redness.
What is blepharitis?
This is a condition of the eye where the light that comes in does not directly focus on the retina but in front of it.
What is myopia?
Creation of a permanent opening in the tear duct for the drainage of tears.
What is DCR?
This occurs when liquid from vitreous cavity passes through a retinal tear separating the retina from the choroid.
What is a retinal detachment?
This is the vascular layer of the eye, containing connective tissue, and lying between the retina and the sclera.
What is the choroid?
This is a condition when uncontrollable muscle twitches or spasms force your eyelids closed.
What is hemifacial spasm?
A chronic neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the voluntary muscles.
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
What is myasthenia gravis?