"Ophthalmia, Sympathetic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Granulomatous uveitis which follows in one eye after a penetrating injury to the other eye; the secondarily affected eye is called the sympathizing eye, and the injured eye is called the exciting or activating eye.
| Descriptor ID |
D009879
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.941.879.780.500 C20.111.709
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| Concept/Terms |
Ophthalmia, Sympathetic- Ophthalmia, Sympathetic
- Ophthalmias, Sympathetic
- Sympathetic Ophthalmia
- Sympathetic Ophthalmias
- Uveitis, Sympathetic
- Sympathetic Uveitides
- Sympathetic Uveitis
- Uveitides, Sympathetic
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