| detachment | 1. A voluntary or involuntary feeling or emotion that accompanies a sense of separation from normal associations or environment. 2. Separation of a structure from its support. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| vitreous detachment | Separation of the peripheral vitreous humor from the retina. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| retinal detachment | <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) |
| rhegmatogenous retinal detachment | Retinal separation associated with a break, a hole, or a tear in the sensory retina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| exudative retinal detachment | Detachment of the retina without retinal breaks, arising from inflammatory disease of choroid, retinal tumours, and retinal angiomatosis. (05 Mar 2000) |