uveitis
- noun
- /juːˈviːɪtɪs/
- Specialized
:
uveítis
- The doctor diagnosed her with uveitis after she complained of redness and pain in her eye.
- anterior uveitis
- posterior uveitis
- acute uveitis
Examples
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When cells are present in the posterior vitreous gel, the patient must be considered to have posterior uveitis.
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Systemic steroids are virtually never necessary for anterior uveitis alone.
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Much of our information on the nature of the cells responsible for tissue damage in uveitis comes from studies of experimental models.
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In some cases, the uveitis is part of a systemic disorder; the activity of which will also influence treatment.
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There is some information on the pathology of posterior uveitis.
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Does autoimmune uveitis resemble other autoimmune diseases?
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Uveitis confined to the anterior segment, whether it is unilateral or bilateral, is treated topically.
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Ocular side effects of the bisphosphonates have been reported recently and include problems ranging from nonspecific conjunctivitis to uveitis.
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His hospital course was notable for acute respiratory failure caused by acute respiratory distress syndrome, metabolic encephalopathy, and uveitis of the right eye.
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In some cases, posterior inflammation spills over into the anterior chamber and the patient presents with anterior uveitis.
Academic text (1991)
How Severe
70
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- Archaic
- Specialized
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Uveitis comes from uvea, from Latin uva meaning 'grape', plus the ending -itis meaning 'inflammation'. A helpful image is that the eye's middle layer looked like a dark grape, so uveitis means 'inflammation of the uvea', the middle layer of the eye.