trichiasis

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• When the in-turned lashes grate on the cornea, the trichiasis is painful and dangerous.

  Academic text (2004)

• People with trichiasis often experience irritation in their eyes due to the inturned eyelashes.

• In most populations, women are as much as three times more likely to develop trichiasis than men are.

  Academic text (2004)

• One of the most disturbing findings in the Malakal area was that children as young as five years old were afflicted with trichiasis.

  Academic text (2004)

• The surgery is a simple procedure for realigning the inturned eyelashes of trichiasis patients.

  Academic text (2004)

• Blindness may result and is caused by dryness and vascularization of the cornea or by trichiasis.

  Academic text (1996)

• Trichiasis often recurs months to years after surgery for 25%-75% of patients (2, 3) and can be a result of reinfection (3).

  Academic text (2013)

• From 2002 through 2003, a total of more than 10,000 trichiasis patients received corrective surgery—a healthy number, but still less than 30 percent of the estimated backlog of patients needing surgery in that zone.

  Academic text (2004)

• In 2002, in the South Gondar Zone of Ethiopia, the Amhara Health Bureau trained nineteen surgeons in the treatment of trichiasis and supplied them with a hundred new surgical kits.

  Academic text (2004)

• The condition known as trichiasis causes discomfort when the eyelashes grow inward and rub against the eye.

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Etymology