Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein (MOG) is a small protein that sits on the outer surface of that myelin. In MOG-optic neuritis, the immune system mistakenly ...
Dr. Mary A. Ahluwalia, MD - Ophthalmologist
A mycotic ulcer is an open, painful sore on the cornea (the clear, dome-shaped “window” at the front of your eye) that is caused by a fungus. “Mycotic” means ...
Mucositis means inflammation and injury of the mucous membranes. Mucous membranes are the soft, moist linings inside the mouth, throat, esophagus (food pipe), ...
A mycoplasma-induced rash is a skin and mucous-membrane reaction that happens during or soon after infection with the germ Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Many people ...
Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome (MEWDS) is an eye condition that suddenly appears, usually in one eye, in otherwise healthy people—most often young, ...
Ocular features are the visible signs and measurable findings related to your eyes. They are the things an eye-care professional can see, feel, measure, or ...
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) is a group of inherited (passed down in families) conditions that make certain hormone-producing glands grow abnormally. ...
Muir-Torre Syndrome (MTS) is a hereditary (autosomal-dominant) cancer syndrome where people develop oil-gland (sebaceous) skin tumors and have a higher chance ...
Mucus Fishing Syndrome is a cycle where the eye makes extra stringy mucus because the surface is irritated. That extra mucus feels annoying, so a person keeps ...
Mucormycosis is a serious fungal infection. It happens when tiny fungus spores (from a group called Mucorales) enter the body—usually through the nose, ...
A mucocele is a soft, cyst-like swelling filled with mucus (slippery fluid) that forms when a mucus-carrying duct gets blocked or torn. Think of a thin tube ...
Morning Glory Anomaly (often shortened to MGDA) is a birth-time (congenital) change in the optic nerve head—the spot where the optic nerve enters the back of ...
A Morgagnian cataract is a very late, “over-ripe” cataract. By this stage, the soft, outer layers of the lens (the cortex) have liquefied—they turn into a ...
Morbihan disease (also called Morbihan syndrome, solid persistent facial edema, solid facial lymphedema, or rosacea-associated facial lymphedema) is a rare ...
Mooren’s ulcer is a rare, very painful sore at the edge of the cornea (the clear front window of the eye). It starts near the limbus (the border where the ...
Monovision LASIK is a vision correction procedure that intentionally leaves one eye slightly nearsighted while correcting the other eye for distance ...
Monofixation syndrome is a binocular-vision pattern where a person uses both eyes together for wide, peripheral vision, but does not use both foveas (the ...
Monocular Occipital Temporal Crescent Syndrome also known Temporal crescent syndrome, which occurs from a lesion in the anterior occipital cortex, however, is ...
Monocular Elevation Deficit (MED)—also called “double elevator palsy”—is when one eye cannot look up as it should. The problem looks the same whether that eye ...
Monkeypox is a contagious disease caused by the mpox virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family (the same family as smallpox, but mpox is usually much ...
