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retinitis

/ret-n-ahy-tis/US // ˌrɛt nˈaɪ tɪs //UK // (ˌrɛtɪˈnaɪtɪs) //

视网膜炎,视网膜膜炎,视网膜症,视网膜病变

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Ophthalmology.

    • : inflammation of the retina.

Examples

  • Another company, Nanoscope Technologies in Bedford, Texas, said in a presentation at a virtual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in November that it had also restored limited vision to some people with retinitis pigmentosa.

  • After 33 years of working in a factory, Nowlin had developed a hereditary eye disease called Retinitis pigmentosa.

  • It is especially serious when the more central portions of the retina, are thus affected (choroido-retinitis centralis).

  • Choroiditis and retinitis may also occur, and leave permanent changes easily recognised on examination with the ophthalmoscope.

  • Irving thereupon stopped work, and the doctor diagnosed his case as "Retinitis conjunctivitis, both eyes."

  • Liebreich, occurrence of pigmentary retinitis in deaf-mutes, ii.

  • The arteries are terminal ones, and small patches of retinitis are therefore found.