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  1. Interesting Reads 2 Apr 2021 5 min read

    Trivia

    Do you Know !! The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body. The external muscles that move ht eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times powerful than they need to be. Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts. The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 million of images of the world around you. Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles & organs in our body. A blink of an eye lasts about one-tenth of a second. The average persons blink their eyes about 11,500 times per day and about 4.2 million times per year. Dacryphilia is the arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you away from crying. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear well. You can’t sneeze with your eyes open (you can try it!!) Everyone is colour blind at birth. The eye is the only part of t

    Dr. Parthopratim Dutta Majumder
  2. Interesting Reads 1 Apr 2021 33 min read

    A to Z Eponyms in ophthalmology

    Often asked in vivas, ophthalmic eponyms or various signs/ instruments in ophthalmology which share the same name, are one of the favorite questions of many examiners. We have tried to compile common such terminologies in ophthalmology for the benefit of postgraduate students. A Amsler (Marc Amsler : Swiss ophthalmologist, 1891-1968) Amsler Grid- The Amsler Grid is a square-shaped grid used to detect or monitor metamorphopsia or scotoma involving the central visual field in various disorders of the macula and optic nerve head.There are 7 charts of the Amsler Grid each with a dimension of 10 cm × 10 cm. Amsler sign- Amsler sign (aka Amsler-Verrey sign) is present in Fuchs heterochromic uveitis (FHU). It is characterized by hemorrhage in the anterior chamber (hyphema) after anterior chamber paracentesis or entry with the micro vitreoretinal blade during anterior segment surgeries, including cataract surgery or minor trauma. Amsler Krumeich grading- Classification of keratoconus based on

    Dr. Jigyasa Sahu · Dr. Shweta Viswanath
  3. Students Gallery 1 Apr 2021 57 min read

    Syndromes in Ophthalmology

    A syndrome is a recognizable complex of symptoms and physical findings that indicate a specific condition for which a direct cause is not necessarily understood. While medicine has innumerable syndromes, a similar scenario exists in ophthalmology too. It is crucial for a clinically astute ophthalmologist to be aware of these syndromes to initiate necessary workup for more sinister lesions associated with certain ocular findings. This article aims at addressing various syndromes related to ophthalmology highlighting the ocular findings. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z A Aarskog’s syndrome: Ocular symptoms include megalocornea, hypertelorism, antimongoloid palpebral fissures. Systemic features are short stature, syndactyly. Aberfeld Syndrome Ocular features include blepharophimosis, exotropia, myopia, congenital cataracts, microcornea. Systemic features are myopathy, bone deformities, arachnodactyly, dwarfism, hypoplas

    Dr. Niranjan Karthik Senthil Kumar
  4. Interesting Reads 1 Apr 2021 5 min read

    Word Root : Origin of Ophthalmic Terms

    The study of the origin of word is known as etymology. Most of the ophthalmic terminology is derived from Greek and Latin words. Most probably Hippocrates (460-370 BC) was the first to use specific ophthalmic terms that we are still using nowadays. He has been credited for using the terms like amblyopia, hippus, nystagmus & phthisis. Similarly, terms like canthus, exophthalmos, glaucoma, and leukoma are thought o be the contribution of Aristotle (384-322 BC). It was Galen (13 l-201 AD) who used the terms like chalazion, chemosis, iris, mydriasis, pterygium, strabismus, and trichiasis. Here in this section, I have compiled some terms of ophthalmology with their root of origin. Canthus = Greek word “kanthas” = angle Levator palpebrae superioris = In Latin, “levator” = to lift, “palpebrae” = an eyelid, superioris = upper Caruncle = Latin word means flesh. Plica semilunaris = Latin word “Plicare” = to fold, “semilunaris” = half moon. Tarsus = Greek word means flat, Ancient greeks used to c

    Dr. Parthopratim Dutta Majumder
  5. Interesting Reads 29 Aug 2009 6 min read

    Pictionary of Eye

    It is a human tendency to compare everything with day-to-day life happening, objects around them. Proverbs are one such example; they give some form of life advice with examples of very commonly occurring incidents/things in our daily life. In medical science, we often come across such analogical expressions that had been picked up from some common objects. Because of the resemblance with the morphological appearance of a clinical entity, such analogical terminology often help us to understand the clinical entity in a more straightforward way. In the “Pictionary” section, I have tried to highlight few such terminologies. Please mail me (drparthopratim@gmail.com) the terminologies I have missed here Animal Fat : Animal Fats are used in describing mainly two terminologies in ophthalmology. The first one is mutton-fat keratic precipitates. Large greasy-appearing aggregates of inflammatory cells on the corneal endothelium, typically seen in granulomatous anterior uveitis, are termed as “Mu

    Dr. Parthopratim Dutta Majumder

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