ACRYLIC: |
A plastic Methylmethacrylic Resin (PMMA). |
ANTERIOR: |
The front or forward part of an object. |
ANOPHTHALMIC: |
True absence of the eyeball. |
BINOCULAR VISION: |
The ability to use the two eyes. |
CONFORMER: |
A temporary clear prosthetic shell similar in shape of a reform prosthetic eye inserted after Enucleation or Evisceration |
CONJUNCTIVA: |
Mucous membrane tissue that is sutured over an implant to incase it into the orbit. |
EMPIRICAL FITTING: |
Practical experience rather than theory. |
ENUCLEATION: |
Complete surgical removal of the eyeball. |
EVISCERATION: |
Surgical removal of the contents of the eyeball. |
GLAUCOMA: |
An ocular condition in which there is a lost of visual function of the retina resulting from intraocular pressure. |
HYDROXYAPATITE: |
Found in the harvested coral that is manufactured into an intergrated ordital implant. |
IMPLANT: |
A prosthetic device of Acrylic or Porous material that is surgically inserted within the scleral envelope of an eviscerated eye or the socket of an enucleated eye. |
IMPRESSION FITTING: |
Duplication of an anophthalmic socket. |
LIMBUS BLEND: |
Translucent edge of the cornea. |
MICROPHTHALMOS: |
An adnormally small eyeball. |
MOTILITY: |
Moving or having the power to move spontaneously. |
| NECROSIS: |
The death of tissue or tissue cells, especially in a circumscribed portion of the body, as in gangrene, and/or the changes which take place in the cells after they have died. |
OCULARIST: |
One who fits and fabricates custom ocular prostheses. |
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: |
A physician who is a specialist in the disease and defects of the eye and its appendages, and in medical/surgucal treatment of these disease. |
POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE: |
Plastic polymer used in the manufacture of artificial eyes. |
PROSTHESIS: |
Any artificial part of the body. |
PROTEIN DEPOSITS: |
A surface build-up on the ocular prosthesis of dried secretions and can cause lid margin irritation. |
PTOSIS: |
Prolapse or falling down of the top eyelid. |
PTOSIS CRUTCH: |
A general term identifying the various modifications to the ocular prosthesis that are designed to support the upper lid. |
RETINOBLASTOMA: |
A congenital malignant tumor, usually observed before the age of five. |
SCLERA: |
The white of the eye. |
SCLERAL SHELL: |
A thin lens that fits over the Phthisical or Eviscerated globe. |
SUCTION CUP: |
A rubber or silicone vacuum device used to remove the prosthesis. |
ULCER, CORNEAL: |
Pathologial loss of substances of the surface of the cornea due to progressive erosion and neurosis of the tissue. |
