Blepharospasm

Introduction: Blepharospasm

Description of Blepharospasm

Blepharospasm (medical condition): A neurological disorder where certain eye muscles fail to...more »

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Benign essential blepharospasm:
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  »Symptoms of Benign essential blepharospasm
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Blepharospasm: spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Blepharospasm: Excessive winking; tonic or clonic spasm of the orbicularis oculi muscle.
Source: Diseases Database

Blepharospasm: Excessive winking; tonic or clonic spasm of the orbicularis oculi muscle.
Source: MeSH 2007

Blepharospasm: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Blepharospasm:

• Spasmodic
• Orbicularis
• Oculi
• Muscle
• Muscle symptoms (7251 causes)
• Muscle disease
• Muscle disorder
• Muscle pain (956 causes)
• May

Blepharospasm as a Disease

Blepharospasm: Another name for Benign essential blepharospasm (or close medical condition association).
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Blepharospasm: Related Diseases

Blepharospasm: Blepharospasm is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Eye conditions
• Eyelid disorders
• Movement conditions
• Muscle conditions
• Eye and vision conditions
• Head conditions

Causes of Blepharospasm

Some of the causes of Blepharospasm are included in the list below:

• Corneal abrasion
• Meige blepharospasm-oromandibular dystonia syndrome
• CS gas
• Salzmann's nodular degeneration of cornea
• Recurrent corneal erosion

See full list of 9 causes of Blepharospasm (Benign essential blepharospasm)

Symptoms of Blepharospasm (Benign essential blepharospasm)

Some of the symptoms of Blepharospasm incude:

• Progressive worsening of eyelid spasms
• Occasional eye blinking
• Occasional eye irritation
• Involuntary winking
• Involuntary squinting

See full list of 15 symptoms of Blepharospasm (Benign essential blepharospasm)

Treatments for Blepharospasm (Benign essential blepharospasm)

Treatments for Blepharospasm (Benign essential blepharospasm) include:

• Botulinum toxin injections
• Medications
• Surgery

Read more about treatments for Blepharospasm

Treatment of Blepharospasm: For more treatment information about Blepharospasm, see treatment of Benign essential blepharospasm (Blepharospasm)

Blepharospasm: Article Excerpts about Benign essential blepharospasm

Benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by... (Source: excerpt from NINDS Benign Essential Blepharospasm Information Page: NINDS)

Blepharospasm: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Blepharospasm:

• focal dystonia
• tics
• twitches
• Parkinson's disease
• botulin toxin
• stress management
• Meige's syndrome

Terms associated with Blepharospasm:

Broader terms for Blepharospasm

• Eyelid Diseases

Source - MeSH 2007

• spasm
• cramp
• muscle spasm

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Blepharospasm

The following list attempts to classify Blepharospasm into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• cramp,muscle spasm,spasm
• symptom
• evidence,grounds
• information
• cognition,knowledge,noesis
• psychological feature

Source: WordNet 2.1

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Eye Diseases
  • Eyelid Diseases
    • Blepharospasm

Disease Ontology - OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies)

• Fragments of torsion dystonia
• Other extrapyramidal diseases and abnormal movement disorders
• HEREDITARY AND DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
• DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SENSE ORGANS
• DISEASES AND INJURIES
• Disease Ontology V2.1 2005

External links related to: Blepharospasm

• Botulinum toxin type A therapy for blepharospasm (Cochrane Review)

Source: Diseases Database

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