ANOPHTHALMIC: |
True absence of the eyeball. |
CONJUNCTIVA: |
Mucous membrane tissue that is sutured over an implant to incase it into the orbit. |
ENUCLEATION: |
Complete surgical removal of the eyeball. |
EVISCERATION: |
Surgical removal of the contents of the eyeball. |
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. |
MOTILITY: |
Moving or having the power to move spontaneously. |
PROSTHESIS: |
Any artificial part of the body. |
| 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. |
