Sentences with phrase «eye surface»

This artificial eye surface could help researchers study dry eye disease, a condition that affects an estimated 16 million adults in the United States.

The reason is because of an imbalance of sex hormones, which can affect eye surface and the function of tear glands.

An open eye may be scratched, resulting in corneal ulceration, or a hole in the clear eye surface.

Handle the tasks of recording the distance between lenses and eye surface by using lensometers and microscopes

BABY BLUE Using human eye cells, researchers fashioned an artificial eye surface that could be used to study and test treatments for eye diseases.

Researchers used a laboratory technique called 16s rRNA sequencing to compare the bacterial communities of the conjunctiva (the eye surface) and the skin under the eye from 58 adults.

It's unclear how these changes occur, said senior study author Maria Dominguez - Bello, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the university, «if these bacteria are transferred from the fingers to the lens and to the eye surface, or if the lenses exert selective pressures on the eye bacterial community in favor of skin bacteria.»

When the tear film functions properly, a thin liquid film coats the eye surface during a blink by the upper eyelid, creating a smooth optical surface for vision and allowing us to see clearly.

In the study, Sussex scientists measured the eye surfaces of 66 small and large wood ants and created eye «heat maps».

Despite these perceptions, the third eyelid of cats plays an important role in maintaining the health of their eye surface.

A subconjunctival hemorrhage happens when a blood vessel just under the eye surface breaks, and blood gets trapped and forms a bright red patch in the white of your eye.

Vitamin A helps in protecting the cornea (the eye surface), and is an essential nutrient for healthy vision.

Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS)- decrease in the production of tears, so much that the eye surface becomes dry.

In some pets, the tear production does not improve and, other than frequent application of the artificial tear lubrication, the only other procedure that provides moisture to the eye is a salivary duct transposition surgery to reroute saliva to the eye surface.

Also, if your rabbit has any damage to the eye surface (such as a scratch) make sure to get your rabbit to the veterinarian immediately for treatment, because infections of the surface of the eye can progress rapidly.

Dogs that rub and paw at their faces introduce additional bacteria, fungi, and dirt, and may damage the skin or eye surfaces.

The eyes of healthy cats and dogs should be clear without excessive tearing, redness, clouding, lesions on the eye surface or swelling of the eye rims.

I - DROP ® Vet GEL is the first sterile, multidose, preservative - free delivery system providing lubrication and moistening of the eye surface.

Topaz has different colored eyes, and her left eye has pigments deposited on her corneal surface that give the eye surface a rough and pitted appearance.

This helps flush away any irritants that might have contaminated the eye surface.

This causes painful trauma to the eye surface (cornea).

These remedies not only help to keep dog eyes clear of any secondary infections and cleans the eye surface, but also supports the physiology of all ophthalmic tissues.