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glaucoma caused by blockage of the canal of Schlemm; produces gradual loss of peripheral vision
open-angle glaucoma is the most common type of glaucoma
How To Use chronic glaucoma In A Sentence
- In one, a patient with secondary glaucoma, prior to the diathermic application the tension was 37½ mm., after the passage of the current it had fallen to 28 mm., but the next morning the tension rose to 45 mm. In a patient with chronic glaucoma no definite alteration of tension could be found. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- This is especially apt to be the case in chronic glaucoma where the iris is adherent to the cornea, and in efforts to free the filtration angle by an iridectomy the iris is torn off in front of the adhesion and the filtration angle is not opened. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- In the comparison with the national norm: The P and N scores in EPQ test in the acute glaucoma group were higher than the national norm and those in the chronic glaucoma group.
