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Eye Diseases > Lens Diseases > Lens Subluxation

Preferred term

Lens Subluxation  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Dislocation, Lens
  • Dislocations, Lens
  • Lens Dislocation
  • Lens Dislocation and Subluxation
  • Lens Dislocations

Note

  • spontaneous or traumatic; luxation = total disloc, subluxation = partial disloc

Scope note

  • Incomplete rupture of the zonule with the displaced lens remaining behind the pupil. In dislocation, or complete rupture, the lens is displaced forward into the anterior chamber or backward into the vitreous body. When congenital, this condition is known as ECTOPIA LENTIS.

History note

  • 90; was LENS DISLOCATION AND SUBLUXATION 1978-89

In other languages

  • mykiön subluksaatio

    Finnish

  • dislocatio lentis
  • linssin osittainen siirtymä
  • linssin subluksaatio
  • mykiön osittainen siirtymä
  • mykiön vähäinen siirtymä
  • subluxatio lentis
  • Linsluxation

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007906

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