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RETINITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of the retina
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("retinitis" is a kind of...):
inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retinitis"):
chorioretinitis (inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina)
Context examples:
In retinitis pigmentosa cases, scientists find an influx of microglia near the photoreceptors, which led to the belief that microglia contribute to retina damage.
(Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells, National Institutes of Health)
The virus may cause retinitis, esophagitis, gastritis, and colitis.
(Cytomegaloviral Infection, NCI Thesaurus)
Signs and symptoms include retinitis pigmentosa which may lead to blindness, hearing problems and deafness, hypotonia, ataxia, nystagmus, facial deformities, and mental and growth retardation.
(Infantile Refsum Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
Human herpesvirus 5 is found in humans and causes mononucleosis-like symptoms in healthy individuals and pneumonia, hepatitis, encephalitis, myelitis, colitis, retinitis, neuropathy, mucoepidermoid carcinoma as well as other malignancies in immunocompromised persons, organ transplant recipients and newborn infants.
(Human Herpesvirus 5, NCI Thesaurus)
A new study shows that the complement system, part of the innate immune system, plays a protective role to slow retinal degeneration in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
But a new study shows that they also accelerate damage wrought by blinding eye disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa.
(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)
The discovery could apply to studies of inherited photoreceptor degeneration diseases in people, known as retinitis pigmentosa.
(Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells, National Institutes of Health)
The current study involving retinitis pigmentosa underscores the notion that the complement system may in fact exacerbate or curb retinal degeneration depending on the context.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
Retinitis pigmentosa is an incurable and unpreventable blinding eye disease that affects 1 in 4,000 people.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
Rod photoreceptors, the light-sensing cells that die off first in retinitis pigmentosa, were precipitously lost along with a surge in the expression of neurotoxic inflammatory cytokines.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
