SCLERITIS
\sklɛɹˈa͡ɪtɪs], \sklɛɹˈaɪtɪs], \s_k_l_ɛ_ɹ_ˈaɪ_t_ɪ_s]\
Definitions of SCLERITIS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Refers to any inflammation of the sclera including episcleritis, a benign condition affecting only the episclera, which is generally short-lived and easily treated. Classic scleritis, on the other hand, affects deeper tissue and is characterized by higher rates of visual acuity loss and even mortality, particularly in necrotizing form. Its characteristic symptom is severe and general head pain. Scleritis has also been associated with systemic collagen disease. Etiology is unknown but is thought to involve a local immune response. Treatment is difficult and includes administration of anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive agents such as corticosteroids. Inflammation of the sclera may also be secondary to inflammation of adjacent tissues, such as the conjunctiva.
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Inflammation of the sclera; a disease occurring both in a superficial (episcleritis) and a deep form. The latter produces thinning and bulging out of the sclera.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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