Ophthalmia

Introduction: Ophthalmia

Description of Ophthalmia

Ophthalmia (medical condition): Ophthalmitis can mean any type of eye inflammation. However, its common use is only with regard to Neonatal ophthalmitis or Sympathetic ...more

Ophthalmia: See also:

Ophthalmitis:
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Ophthalmia: Eye inflammation.

Ophthalmia: (1) Severe, often purulent, conjunctivitis. (2) Inflammation of the deeper structures of the eye. [G.]
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Ophthalmia: severe conjunctivitis.
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Ophthalmia: Suppurative inflammation of the tissues of the internal structures of the eye; not all layers of the uvea are affected. Fungi, necrosis of intraocular tumors, and retained intraocular foreign bodies often cause a purulent endophthalmitis.
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Ophthalmia: Related Topics

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

• Purulent
• Purulent disorders
• Conjunctivitis (244 causes)
• Inflammation
• Eye
• Eye symptoms (5412 causes)
• Eye disease
• Eye disorder
• Eye problem (5412 causes)
• Eye pain (475 causes)

Ophthalmia as a Disease

Ophthalmia: Another name for Ophthalmitis (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Ophthalmitis
  »Symptoms of Ophthalmitis

Ophthalmia: Related Diseases

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

• Eye conditions
• Eye and vision conditions
• Head conditions
• Inflammatory conditions that may be pathogenic or non-pathogenic

Causes of Ophthalmia

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

• Enterococcus
• Ophthalmia neonatorum
• Foreign body, intraocular
• Staphylococcus aureus
• Streptococcus viridans

See full list of 6 causes of Ophthalmia (Ophthalmitis)

Symptoms of Ophthalmia (Ophthalmitis)

Some of the symptoms of Ophthalmia incude:

• Eye pain
• Eye swelling
• Vision disturbance
• Eye inflammation
• Red eye

See full list of 6 symptoms of Ophthalmia (Ophthalmitis)

Ophthalmia: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Ophthalmia:

• sympathetic ophalmia
• ophalmia neonatorum
• actinic conjunctivitis
• penicillin

Terms associated with Ophthalmia:

Terms Similar to Ophthalmia:

• Endophthalmitis

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• ophthalmitis

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More specific terms for Ophthalmia:

• ophthalmia neonatorum

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Broader terms for Ophthalmia

• conjunctivitis
• pinkeye

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Hierarchical classifications of Ophthalmia

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

WordNet 2.1

• conjunctivitis,pinkeye
• inflammation,redness,rubor
• symptom
• evidence,grounds
• information
• cognition,knowledge,noesis
• psychological feature

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External links related to: Ophthalmia

• eMedicine - Endophthalmitis : Article by Jessica Radin Peters, MD

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