单词 | ophthalmia neonatorum |
释义 | ophthalmia neonatorumn. Medicine. Conjunctivitis, usually purulent, occurring in infants in the first month of life, often as the result of mother-to-child transmission of organisms present in the genital tract. Frequently with distinguishing word indicating the causative organism. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of psorophthalmia1585 psorophthalmy1656 xerophthalmia1656 ophthalmia neonatorum1835 photophobophthalmia1842 sun blight1848 sand-blight1852 sandy blight1869 blepharoconjunctivitis1890 pink-eye1897 klieg eyes1923 bung eye1933 shipyard eye1943 red-eye1952 1835 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. 173/1 Purulent ophthalmia of infants.—This is the ophthalmia neonatorum; the ‘purulent eye’ of children. 1889 Science 1 Nov. 296/1 Dr. Derby found 34 cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, 4 of trachoma, and 12 of the results of sympathetic ophthalmia. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxvi. 1002 Gonorrhœal ophthalmia neonatorum occurs, which may lead to complete blindness. 1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xiv. 223 Its [sc. the gonococcus'] high susceptibility to silver nitrate is the basis of the common practice of preventing ophthalmia neonatorum by placing drops of a 1 to 2% silver nitrate solution in the eyes of newborn infants. 2002 S. Afr. Med. Jrnl. 92 238 A single low dose of..ceftriaxone has emerged as the treatment of choice for gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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