 | Medicine - 1879 - 612 pages
...obscure diagnosis. Too great paleness of the nerve might be due to a high degree of general anaemia, to embolism of the central artery of the retina, or of one of its first branches; but is oftener due to some atrophic change in the nerve itself; as simple progressive... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - Central nervous system - 1886 - 712 pages
...processes occurring within the eyeball, such as (a) intra-ocular neuritis, (/3) embolism or thrombosis of the central artery of the retina or of one of its branches, (y) choroido-retinitis, or (o) as a sequence of blows upon the eyeball. Of these, the most... | |
 | 1892 - 1216 pages
...where there is a tendency to the formation of bloodclots and vegetations, is sometimes productive of embolism of the central artery of the retina, or of one of its branches within the eye. It can, as Gowers says, occur at any age. Warren Tay 7 has had the good fortune... | |
 | New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York eye and ear infirmary - Ear - 1897 - 1292 pages
...my assistants examined the patient in the dark room and reported that the case seemed to be one of embolism of the central artery of the retina, or of one of its branches. I found, indeed, an ophthalmoscopic picture which, in some of its details, very closely resembled... | |
 | Reinhold Willman - Mental healing - 1909 - 192 pages
...and have a tendency to recur, so that they must always be regarded as placing the sight in jeopardy. EMBOLISM of the central artery of the retina, or of one of its branches, is a condition of not infrequent occurrence. When sudden blindness of one eye occurs in a... | |
 | Endocrinology - 1912 - 286 pages
...rule leads to apoplectic strokes, and hence is of grave prognostic significance. 2. Sudden occlusion of the central artery of the retina or of one of its branches usually also points to similar sclerotic changes when occurring in a person over forty years... | |
 | Charles Henry May - Eye - 1924 - 512 pages
...ptosis, and enophthalmos through paralysis of the same; this condition may also cause thrombosis and embolism of the central artery of the retina or of one of its branches. Arteriosclerosis gives rise to characteristic changes in the fundus which are described on... | |
 | International Perimetric Society. Meeting - Gardening - 1993 - 630 pages
...relating to an obstructive pathology of the carotid artery may be acute: amaurosis fugax, occlusion of the central artery of the retina or of one of its branches; or chronic: chronic ischemic retinopathy (CIR) and ocular ischemic syndrome (OIS)3-6-7. This... | |
 | Medicine - 1879 - 624 pages
...obscure diagnosis. Too great paleness of the nerve might be due to a high degree of general anaemia, to embolism of the central artery of the retina, or of one of its first branches ; but is oftener due to some atrophic change in the nerve itself; as simple progressive... | |
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Aneurysm of the aorta may give rise to mydriasis, enlarged palpebral aperture, and exophthalmos as a result of irritation of the cervical sympathetic; or to miosis, slight ptosis, and enophthalmos through paralysis of the same; this condition may also... 