A 58-year-old Brit, on a holiday to the jungles of Indonesia, discovered a leech was sucking on his eyeball days after he was uncomfortable in the eye. After severe itching began, Tony Exall visited a ...

The sclera is the white part of the eye. It is made of tough, fibrous tissue that acts as a protective covering for most of the eyeball. The sclera runs from the cornea at the front of the eye to the ...

No medium is as known for its use of eyes in character design as anime is, the ever famous "anime eyes" being something which ...

A month ago, for instance, my ophthalmologist — who has been treating me for severe dry eye — diagnosed my excessively weepy eyes as resulting from wrinkles or pleats on my sclera, the whites ...

Medicare coverage of scleral lenses Traditional contact lenses sit on your eye’s cornea, but scleral lenses are gas-permeable lenses designed to sit on your sclera or whites of your eyes.

The thinning and fragility of the sclera caused by the rheumatoid arthritis significantly increase the risk of ocular trauma. Additionally, scleromalacia may occur in conjunction with intraocular ...

Panelists discuss how successful port delivery system (PDS) implantation requires careful patient selection and meticulous surgical technique to minimize complications like vitreous hemorrhage and ...

A 75-year-old man with suspected scleral thinning was referred to our ophthalmology clinic. The patient had visited his ophthalmologist in private practice reporting a 10-month history of bilateral, ...

Episcleritis is an acute inflammatory disorder of the episclera, the thin tissue between the clear membrane covering the eye (conjunctiva) and the white of the eye (sclera). The episclera houses a ...

Episcleritis in dogs is an inflammatory condition of the episclera, which is the thin layer of tissue between the conjunctiva ...

In this paper, we propose a bifurcation-based descriptor using a local structure of blood vessel features on sclera for identity verification. The sclera, one of the ocular biometric traits, can be ...

Mini scleral lenses can create thinning in the conjunctival-episcleral layer, but do not significantly affect anterior scleral thickness.