| detached cranial section | Craniotomy with section of cranium separated from its soft tissue attachments. Synonym: detached cranial section. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| detached craniotomy | Craniotomy with section of cranium separated from its soft tissue attachments. Synonym: detached cranial section. (05 Mar 2000) |
| detached retina | <ophthalmology> A painless disorder (when spontaneous) where the patient complains of a gradual raising or lowering of a curtain over the visual field of the affected eye. May also occur as the result of trauma. (27 Sep 1997) |
| patellar fossa of vitreous | A depression on the anterior surface of the vitreous body in which lies the lens. Synonym: fossa hyaloidea, lenticular fossa, patellar fossa of vitreous. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous | Glasslike or hyaline, often used alone to designate the vitreous body of the eye (corpus vitreum). (18 Nov 1997) |
| vitreous body | The transparent gel that fills the inner portion of the eyeball between the lens (lens, crystalline) and the retina. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vitreous camera | The large space between the lens and the retina; it is filled with the vitreous body. Synonym: camera vitrea bulbi, vitreous camera, vitreous chamber of eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous cell | A cell occurring in the peripheral part of the vitreous body that may be responsible for production of hyaluronic acid and possibly of collagen. Synonym: hyalocyte. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous chamber of eye | The large space between the lens and the retina; it is filled with the vitreous body. Synonym: camera vitrea bulbi, vitreous camera, vitreous chamber of eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous detachment | Separation of the peripheral vitreous humor from the retina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous haemorrhage | Haemorrhage into the vitreous body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vitreous hernia | Prolapse of the vitreous humor into the anterior chamber; may follow removal or displacement of the lens from the lenticular space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous humor | <ophthalmology> The gel-like substance that fills the eyeball between the lens and the retina. (11 Nov 1997) |
| vitreous lamella | The transparent, nearly structureless inner layer of the choroid in contact with the pigmented layer of the retina. Synonym: basal lamina of choroid, basal layer of choroid, Bruch's membrane, Henle's membrane, lamina vitrea, vitreous lamella, vitreous membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous membrane | A condensation of fine collagen fibres in places in the cortex of the vitreous body; formerly thought to form a membrane or capsule at its periphery. Synonym: lamina basalis choroideae. See: posterior limiting layer of cornea (05 Mar 2000) |