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Contact Term 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Macrophthalmia | Abnormally large eyeball |
| Melanoma | Malignant tumor derived from pigment cells. In the eye, can initiate in the choroid, ciliary body, or iris. |
| Microcornea | Small cornea of 10mm or less |
| Miotic | A drug that causes the pupil to contract |
| Mydriatic | A drug that dilates the pupil |
| Muscae Volitantes | dark or translucent specks seen when looking at bright, overly illuminated field, such as the sky. Caused by minute residue of fetal vascular system floating in the vitreous |
| Nebula | A faint or slightly misty corneal opacity |
| Nystagmus | an involuntary oscillating, rapid movement of the eyeball; it may be lateral, vertical, rotary, or mixed |
| Orthoptics | Deals with the diagnosis and treatment of defective eye coordination, binocular vision, and functional amblyopia, by non-medical and non-surgical methods |
| Palpebral | pertaining to the eyelid |
| Pannus | invasion of the peripheral cornea by infiltration and formation of new blood vessels |
| Papilloma | |
| Phakic | refers to an eye that possesses its natural lens |
| Photophobia | abnormal sensitivity to, and discomfort from, light. |
| Pthisis bulbi | diseased or damaged eyeball that has shrunk and lost its function |
| Pinguecula | yellowish, triangular thickening of bulbar conjunctiva, nasal or temporal to the cornea |
| Proptosis | Protrusion of the eye |
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