Bread Crumb:
Bread crumbs are small particles of dry bread, which are used for breading or crumbing foods. Granular corneal dystrophy shows discrete stromal opacities with the appearance of snow-flakes or bread crumbs.
Tobacco Dust:
Pigmented cells in the vitreous seen in retinal detachments are often described as tobacco dust.
Cartwheel:
The foveal schisis characteristically creates a cartwheel pattern formed by folds in the internal limiting membrane overlying microcyst within the nerve fiber layer.
Bag of worms:
Plexiform neurofibroma consists of a proliferation within a nerve sheath, which produces a markedly thickened, tortuous nerve. On palpation, it has been described as resembling a bag of worms.
Champagne cork:
In the late stages of papilloedema, the optic disc takes the appearance of the dome of a champagne cork
Mutton Fat:
Large greasy-appearing aggregates of inflammatory cells on the corneal endothelium, typically seen in Granulomatous uveitis are termed as “Mutton Fat” Keratic precipitates.
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