Papilledema means swelling of the optic nerve head (the “optic disc”) because the pressure inside the skull is too high. It’s not a disease by itself; it is a ...
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Panuveitis is a kind of eye inflammation. It means the whole uvea is inflamed. The uvea is the “middle coat” of the eye. It has three main parts: the iris in ...
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy is an advanced eye problem caused by long-standing diabetes. High blood sugar damages tiny retinal blood vessels. Parts of ...
Panophthalmitis is a very severe eye infection and inflammation. In this condition, almost every part of the eye is involved. The cornea, conjunctiva, anterior ...
Coral keratitis usually means toxic injury to the cornea from palytoxin, a powerful natural poison made by some zoanthid/soft corals (popular in home reef ...
Palytoxin keratitis means the clear window at the front of your eye (the cornea) becomes damaged and inflamed after the eye touches palytoxin. Palytoxin is a ...
Palinopsia means you keep seeing an image after the real object is gone. The picture may linger in place, follow or “trail” moving things, or pop back into ...
Painful tic convulsif syndrome happens when two problems occur together on the same side of the face: trigeminal neuralgia (sudden electric-shock face pain) ...
Photoablation means using a special laser to reshape or remove very thin layers from the clear front window of the eye (the cornea). Surgeons use a cold ...
Pachydrusen are small mounds of waste material that collect under the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in the back of the eye. They look yellow-white on ...
“Pachy-” means thick. The choroid is the spongy, blood-vessel layer under your retina that feeds the retina oxygen and nutrients. In the pachychoroid spectrum, ...
Pachychoroid neovasculopathy is an eye condition that happens in the macula, the tiny central area of the retina that gives sharp vision. In PNV, the ...
Oxidative stress means the “rusting” or damage that happens inside living tissue when there are too many aggressive oxygen molecules, called reactive oxygen ...
Orbital xanthomas are yellow to yellow‑orange growths or swellings that develop around the eyes or inside the eye socket (the orbit). They form because special ...
Orbital vasculitis means inflammation of the blood vessel walls inside the eye socket (the orbit). The orbit holds the eyeball, the eye muscles, the optic ...
An orbital varix is a group of abnormally enlarged, stretchy veins inside the eye socket (the orbit). A normal vein is a soft tube that carries blood back to ...
An orbital teratoma is a rare tumor that grows inside the eye socket (the orbit, the bony space that holds the eye). It is congenital, which means it usually ...
An orbital schwannoma is a benign (non-cancerous) tumor that grows from Schwann cells. Schwann cells are the cells that wrap around small peripheral nerves ...
The orbital roof is the bony “ceiling” of the eye socket. It is made mainly by the frontal bone. It separates the eye from the front part of the brain. An ...
An orbital plasmacytoma is a mass of abnormal plasma cells that grows in or around the eye socket (the orbit). Plasma cells are white blood cells that normally ...
