senile halo


halo

 [ha´lo] a circular structure, such as a luminous circle seen surrounding an object or light.Fick's halo a colored circle appearing around a light, experienced by wearers of contact lenses.halo glaucomato´sus (glaucomatous halo) a narrow light zone surrounding the optic disk in glaucoma.senile halo a zone of variable width around the optic disk, due to exposure of various elements of the choroid as a result of senile atrophy of the pigmented epithelium.

se·nile ha·lo

circumpapillary halo seen in choroidal atrophy of the aged.