iritisn.
/ʌɪˈrʌɪtɪs/ Pathology.
Inflammation of the iris.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > disorders of iris
hippus?1587
synechia1745
iritis1818
coloboma1843
iridencleisis1855
irideremia1855
aniridia1860
choroido-iritis1869
iridoplegia1878
rubeosis1934
1818 Travers in A. Cooper & Travers Surg. Ess. (ed. 3) i. 65 By the term ‘Iritis’ I mean to express the deep-seated inflammation of the eye.
1855 J. Dixon Pract. Study Dis. Eye (1860) 137 We first meet with the word ‘Iritis’ in a treatise by Schmidt of Vienna, published in 1801.
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight v. 58 Iritis..often destroys sight by closing the pupil, and shutting off the light from the interior of the eye.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.1818- to speak one's conscience
- to speak one's mind
- to speak one's piece
- to speak one's sense
- to speak or look daggers
- to speak out
- to speak out in meeting
- to speak out of one's turn
- to speak out of turn
- to speak over
- to speak past
- to speak reason
- to speak scorn of
- to speak sense
- to speak someone's language
- to speak someone'the same language
- to speak strictly
- to speak the truth
- to speak through one's nose
- to speak through the nose
- to speak to
- to speak to the wind
- to speak together
- to speak unto
- to speak up