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OPHTHALMIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or resembling the eye
Example:
ophthalmic defect
Synonyms:
ocular; ophthalmic; optic; optical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
eye (the organ of sight)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to ophthalmology
Example:
ophthalmic surgery
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
ophthalmology (the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases)
Context examples:
A sterile ophthalmic solution containing 0.03% of a synthetic prostaglandin analog bimatoprost with hair-growing and anti-glaucoma activities.
(Bimatoprost Ophthalmic Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
It is used mostly in ophthalmic preparations for decreasing intraocular pressure.
(Apraclonidine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon ocular administration, edetate exerts its ophthalmic effect by chelating calcium to form soluble complexes, thereby removing corneal calcium deposits.
(Edetate Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)
Any of the sterile, commercial combination preparations, by Pfizer, containing neomycin sulfate and polymyxin B sulfate, as the main active ingredients, for ophthalmic treatments.
(Neosporin Ophthalmic, NCI Thesaurus)
A blood vessel also known as the supratrochlear artery that arises from the ophthalmic artery and ascends on the forehead.
(Frontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
Administered as an ophthalmic solution, this drug stimulates the cholinoceptors in the sphincter muscle of the iris, causing the pupil to constrict.
(Acetylcholine Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)
A somatic nerve branching from the ophthalmic nerve that innervates the forehead, eye lids and frontal sinus.
(Frontal Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)
A form of herpes zoster infection characterized by dermatitis of the skin of the eyelid due to reactivation of latent virus associated with the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve.
(Herpes Zoster Dermatitis of Eyelid, NCI Thesaurus)
A sterile solution of a nontoxic tricarbocyanine dye with a peak spectral absorption at 790 nm, with application in determining cardiac output, hepatic function, liver blood flow, as well as ophthalmic angiography.
(Indocyanine Green Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
A brown, blue, or gray hamartoma of dermal melanocytes, usually on the skin of the face along the distribution of the ophthalmic and maxillary branches of the trigeminal nerve that is most commonly found in Asian populations and in females and is usually benign.
(Nevus of Ota, NCI Thesaurus)
