vitreous humour
vitreous humor

These can bleed and be attached to the vitreous humour.

The drug is injected intravitreally (into the vitreous humour of the eye) once a month.

In the human eye, the vitreous humour has a minor role as a metabolic sump.

Hyaluronan is found in many tissues of the body, such as skin, cartilage, and the vitreous humour.

Simply stated, any damage to the eye that causes material to enter the vitreous humour can result in floaters.

Light is then channeled through the vitreous humour and then on to the retina.

It is a visco-elastic polymer normally found in the aqueous and vitreous humour.

These cysts may break off the surface and float freely in aqueous or vitreous humour.

The light then passes through the main body of fluid in the eye-the vitreous humour, and reaches the retina.

This time the curled metal merely came away with jellied lumps of vitreous humour sticking to it.

Floaters are suspended in the vitreous humour, the thick fluid or gel that fills the eye.

It is not to be confused with vitreous humour, which is contained within the larger cavity of the eye behind the lens.

The array is stabilized using micro tacks, along with the slight mechanical pressure provided by the vitreous humour.

The common type of floater, which is present in most people's eyes, is due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour.

Excessive floaters in the vitreous humour.

The latter is an anomaly of the vitreous humour, whereby calcium clumps attach themselves to the collagen network.

With posterior lens luxation, the lens falls back into the vitreous humour and lies on the floor of the eye.

'She's had a blood leakage into the vitreous humour,' Belinda explained unnecessarily, her heart thudding at the sight of him.

Diagnosis is through culture or finding the organism in a biopsy, cerebrospinal fluid, vitreous humour, or urine.

Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's vitreous humour, which is normally transparent.

Similarly, the gel may liquefy, a condition known as synaeresis, allowing cells and other organic clusters to float freely within the vitreous humour.

The shapes are shadows projected onto the retina by tiny structures of protein or other cell debris discarded over the years and trapped in the vitreous humour.

The most common cause of floaters is shrinkage of the vitreous humour: this gel-like substance consists of 99% water and 1% solid elements.

The hyaloid artery, an artery running through the vitreous humour during the fetal stage of development, regresses in the third trimester of pregnancy.

Intraocular foreign bodies do not cause pain because of the lack of nerve endings in the vitreous humour and retina that can transmit pain sensations.