retinopathy
retinopathy
Definition
reti·nopa·thy (ret′'n äp′ə t̸hē)
noun pl. -·thies
any disease, inflammation, etc. of the retina
retinopathy
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- threaten: The main outcome measure for any screening program was considered to be: The detection of sight threatening diabetic retinopathy.
- detect: Failure to detect diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of blindness in the working population of industrialized countries.
- treat: Medical treatments In treating advanced retinopathy, doctors may use laser surgery to shrink abnormal blood vessels at the back of the eye.
- call: The eye condition most commonly associated with diabetes is called diabetic retinopathy.
- develop: The longer a person has diabetes, the higher their chances of developing diabetic retinopathy.
- have: In the US alone, where an estimated 16 million people have either type I or II diabetes, about 600,000 have retinopathy.
Adjective modifier
- diabetic: The main risk factors for diabetic retinopathy are: · Duration of diabetes.
- proliferative: Proliferative retinopathy At this stage, some of the tiny blood vessels in the retina become blocked.
- severe: The total number of MAs has been shown to be an indicator of likely future progression to more severe retinopathy.
- advanced: Medical treatments In treating advanced retinopathy, doctors may use laser surgery to shrink abnormal blood vessels at the back of the eye.
- hypertensive: Those with diabetic retinopathy were twice as likely to have hypertension / hypertensive retinopathy.
Modifies a noun
- screening: Practices achieved retinopathy screening in 88 % of patients.
- program: Ulster Unionists welcome the rolling out of the regional diabetic retinopathy screening program.
- service: Just one example of this is in Exeter where a diabetic retinopathy screening service has been set up.
- cannot: Patients with neuropathy and retinopathy cannot perceive the signs of infection.
Noun used with modifier
- diabetic: Aspirin effects on the development of cataract in patients with diabetes mellitus: early treatment diabetic retinopathy study report 16.
- background: Background retinopathy Is the earliest stage in the development of retinopathy.
- sight-threatening: The key issue in screening for diabetic retinopathy is to identify those patients with sight-threatening retinopathy who may require preventive treatment.
Preposition: in
- patient: CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of melanoma-associated retinopathy in a patient with a previous choroidal melanoma.
Preposition: of
- prematurity: The term ' retinopathy of prematurity ' was first suggested by Heath in 1952.
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