Unfortunately, after surgery a pterygium often grows back again. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 23] Reference
Dark glasses may help calm irritation and slow the growth of a pterygium. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 23] Reference
Yes, besides eye cataracts, pterygium and pinguecula caused by the light of fluorescent bulbs. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #15 « Climate Audit] Reference
Sun exposure has also been linked to an abnormal growth on the corner of the eye near the nose called a pterygium. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Rock Positano: Sunglasses Are More Than A Fashion Statement] Reference
An opthamologist explains that “cataracts and pterygium are common in Costa Rica, in part because of the strong sun.”. From Wordnik.com. [You go, Hugo, and take your goody-goody goodie bags with you] Reference
Connected with diseases of the eye, pterygium is common; not only single, but double, triple, and even quadruple are occasionally met with. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
Other potential eye health problems related to UV exposure include pterygium – a growth on the white of the eye, which encroaches onto the cornea and can obscure your vision. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Other eye disease like pterygium can occur as well. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Eventually, his first pterygium at age 23 was simply his eyes 'natural way of saying. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
Home of Navarro College. do not google pterygium if you dont like people touching eyes. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
Focus will be placed on patients with conditions such as cataracts, pterygium, and diabetic retinography. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica Information Service] Reference
Three main cartilages, named respectively the pro - (p.p.), meso - (m.p.), and meta-pterygium, form the base of the limb. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
He recently had surgery for a pterygium - a layer of tissue that had grown over his eye - and for five more weeks he can't come close to any heat source. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
In some cases, however, it has been found that after removal of a large pterygium, a retraction of the caruncle and the semilunar fold is apt to take place, which renders the eyeball unpleasantly prominent. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
The pelvic girdle and limb (Figure 2, Sheet 15) are similar in structure, but the pro-pterygium and meso-pterygium are absent, and the cartilage answering to the meta-pterygium goes by the name of the basi-pterygium. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
To avoid this the pterygium may be carefully dissected up from its apex to near its base, and then displaced laterally either upwards or downwards, its apex and sides being stitched to a previously prepared site of conjunctiva. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
The conditions to be treated are: cataracts, opacity of the lens; pterygium, the fleshy growth over the eye; and diabetic retinography, which is damage to the back of the eye, or excessive blood vessel growth from uncontrolled diabetes. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica Information Service] Reference
Clinical trails concentrate on cataract, glaucoma, corneal transplantation, pterygium and retinal surgery trails, pharmaceutical and ocular drug delivery trails, visual psychophysics studies and refractive surgery and myopia clinical trails. From Wordnik.com. [JCN Newswire] Reference
It should also be noted that radiation therapy is also increasingly used for non-cancerous conditions, including severe thyroid eye disease, pterygium, pigmented villonodular synovitis, treatment of keloid scar growth, and prevention of heterotopic ossification. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Communication • Qualifiers ( "equivocators") » "Consistent with" » If clinical diagnosis provided - "Conjunctiva with actinic elastosis, goblet cell hyperplasia, and mild chronic inflammation, histological features compatible with the clinical diagnosis of a pterygium" •. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Dr Jaganathan said the eye hospital's main objective was to identify and treat people with cataracts and pterygium (a benign growth of the clear membrane on the eye) living in the rural and remote areas of Kelantan before their conditions became critical and requiring surgery. From Wordnik.com. [nst online] Reference
Eventually, his first pterygium at age 23 was simply his eyes’ natural way of saying. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
Avoiding wearing goggles or 'winkies' whilst using a sunbed can lead to benign eye growths called pterygium. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
He recently had surgery for a pterygium — a layer of tissue that had grown over his eye — and for five more weeks he can’t come close to any heat source. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
It's Vega's third pterygium. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
B. pt., basi-pterygium. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
G., the girdle (also in Figure 3). m.p., meso-pterygium.mt. p., meta-pterygium. p.p., pro-pterygium. sc., its dorsal portion. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
They must be normal in action and quantity unembarrassed, otherwise bad hearing, ulcers of the ears, cross eyes, pterygium, cataract, granulated lids, staphyloma, lachrymosis and up to full list of diseases of the eye, with tonsilitis, injured voice, tumors and cancers of face, head, tongue, mouth and throat, along with erysipelas, blotches and pimples, and all diseases of the glandular system of the head and neck. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
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