NOUN
- visual impairment resulting from the retina becoming separated from the choroid in the back of the eye; treated by photocoagulation
How To Use detached retina In A Sentence
- In some cases a scleral buckle, a tiny synthetic band, is attached to the outside of the eyeball to gently push the wall of the eye against the detached retina.
- Competitive shotgunning is also know for inducing detached retinas mostly in some of us older guys. A Cautionary Hematoma Tale
- A detached retina ruined Lon's wrestling career and stuck him on the business side of a greasy Formica counter in the bait shop. The Last of Boland
- A detached retina disqualified him from military service and in 1917 he worked for the American Red Cross in New Orleans.
- I do have retinal "lattices" common in near-sighted people that could predispose me to detached retinas. Archive 2008-03-01
- The Phoenix Suns are obliged to score 140 points per game and grab a playoff berth while Amare Stoudemire and his detached retina sit out this ambitious campaign.
- He was exempted from military service because of a detached retina, and later in his career, when binocular microscopes became the norm, people puzzled why he was happy to still use a monocular one.
