| phakitis |
Inflammation of the crystalline lens of the eye. SYN: phacitis; lentitis.
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| phakolysis |
Disintegration or removal of the crystalline lens of the eye. SYN: phacolysis (2).
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for words beginning thus, see also those beginning phac(o)-.
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| phakoma |
any of the hamartomas found characteristically in the phakomatoses; one example is the herald lesion of tuberous sclerosis (see tuber, def. 2). Written also phacoma.
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| phakomatosis |
pl. phakomato´ses [phakoma + -osis] any of a group of congenital and hereditary developmental anomalies having in common selective involvement of the tissues of ectodermal origin (i.e., central nervous system, eye, and skin) and the development of disseminated glial hamartomas (phakomas) in these tissues. The major syndromes in the group are neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, Sturge-Weber syndrome, von Hippel-Lindau disease, and ataxia-telangiectasia. Called also neurocutaneous syndrome. Written also phacomatosis.
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