| NOTB | National Ophthalmic Treatment Board |
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| OAP | Office of Adolescent Pregnancy; old age pension, old age pensioner; ophthalmic artery pressure; oste... |
| ODSG | ophthalmic Doppler sonogram |
| OMT | object modeling technique; ocular microtremor; O-methyltransferase; ophthalmic medical technician or... |
| OND | Ophthalmic Nursing Diploma; orbitonasal dislocation; other neurological disorders |
| ophthalmic acid | A tripeptide occurring in lens, similar to glutathione but differing in the replacement of cysteine by alpha-amino-n-butyric acid (i.e., in the replacement of -SH by -CH3); a potent inhibitor of glyoxalase. Compare: norophthalmic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ophthalmic artery | <anatomy, artery> Artery originating from the internal carotid artery and distributing to the eye, orbit and adjacent facial structures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ophthalmic assistants | Persons academically trained to care for patients with eye diseases or structural defects of the eye, under the supervision of an ophthalmologist. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ophthalmic hyperthyroidism | Same as Basedow's disease. Origin: So called after Dr. Graves, of Dublin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophthalmic nerve | <anatomy, nerve> A sensory branch of the trigeminal (5th cranial) nerve. The ophthalmic nerve carries general afferents from the superficial division of the face including the eyeball, conjunctiva, upper eyelid, upper nose, nasal mucosa, and scalp. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ophthalmic ointment | A special ointment for application to the eye that must be free from particles and must be nonirritating to the eye. Synonym: eye ointment, oculentum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ophthalmic plexus | An autonomic plexus, entering the orbit in company with the ophthalmic artery, derived from the internal carotid plexus. Synonym: plexus ophthalmicus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ophthalmic veins | See: inferior ophthalmic vein, superior ophthalmic vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ophthalmic vesicle | In the embryo, one of the paired evaginations from the ventrolateral walls of the forebrain from which the sensory and pigment layers of the retina develop. Synonym: vesicula ophthalmica, ocular vesicle, optic vesicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| organ preservation solutions | Solutions used to store organs, particulary those awaiting implantation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Locke's solutions | Solution's containing, in varying amounts, NaCl, CaCl2, KCl, NaHCO3, and d-glucose; used for irrigating mammalian heart and other tissues, in laboratory experiments; also used in combination with naturally occurring body substances (e.g., blood serum, tissue extracts) and/or more complex chemically defined nutritive solution's for culturing animal cells. (05 Mar 2000) |