Sentences with phrase «left optic nerve»
However, in the course of one of the facial reconstruction surgeries, plaintiff» s left optic nerve was damaged, causing legal blindness in that eye.
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The expert believed that the nurse was negligent in part by damaging the woman's left optic nerve by sticking it with the needle.
The woman alleged that the nurse negligently inserted the needle into her left optic nerve, causing her permanent nerve damage and vision loss.
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(CNN)- Christopher Lukasik was building shelves when a metal rod hit his eye, tearing about a third of his optic nerve fibers and leaving everybody from his doctors to his family wondering whether he would ever see again.
I had an optic nerve tumor in my left eye.
It has fallen on the blind spot of your left eye, a small patch of retina called the optic disk that is devoid of receptors (an imperfection caused by the optic nerve piercing the retina as it exits the eyeball).
The impulse starts with excitation of the left retina, then travels down the optic nerve to cells in the midbrain and brain stem, which excite neurons near both eyes that cause the pupils to constrict.
If only your left pupil had constricted, your doctor would know that the left retina, optic nerve, and brain stem were intact but that there was a problem somewhere between your midbrain and brain stem and right eye.
Several specimens of the species, Fuxianhuia protensa (left), contain dark areas within their eye stalks (see fossil, above right; gray areas in sketch, bottom right) that represent preserved clusters of neural tissue, including clumps along the optic nerve (labeled 1 through 3 in the sketch) and the brain (lowermost mass).
Understanding the role of glial cells in glaucoma as well as what happens to the optic nerve where the retinal nerve axons leave the eye may present new therapeutic targets and even potential biomarkers of glaucoma.
The accident left her with head, neck and back injuries as well as a ruptured optic nerve in her right eye, memory and spatial problems, a speech impediment and chronic headaches.
His sensory preoccupation is in part due to his own experience with an optic nerve disorder in 1994, which left him legally blind.