Diseases

Sympathetic Ophthalmia

Granulomatous uveitis which follows in one eye after a penetrating injury to the other eye; the secondarily affected eye is called the sympathizing eye, and the injured eye is called the exciting or activating eye.

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Abstract

Granulomatous uveitis which follows in one eye after a penetrating injury to the other eye; the secondarily affected eye is called the sympathizing eye, and the injured eye is called the exciting or activating eye.

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Synonyms

7 entry terms
  • Ophthalmia, Sympathetic
  • Uveitis, Sympathetic
  • Ophthalmias, Sympathetic
  • Sympathetic Ophthalmias
  • Sympathetic Uveitides
  • Sympathetic Uveitis
  • Uveitides, Sympathetic

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35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

a type of uveitis: note X ref

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  1. C11w.941.879w.780w.500w
  2. C20w.111w.709w

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WW 525

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Sympathetic Ophthalmia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009879. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009879
  2. Sympathetic Ophthalmia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_ophthalmia
  3. Sympathetic Ophthalmia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2037487