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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Inflammation of the optic nerve. Commonly associated conditions include autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis, infections, and granulomatous diseases. Clinical features include retro-orbital pain that is aggravated by eye movement, loss of color vision, and contrast sensitivity that may progress to severe visual loss, an afferent pupillary defect (Marcus-Gunn pupil), and in some instances optic disc hyperemia and swelling. Inflammation may occur in the portion of the nerve within the globe (neuropapillitis or anterior optic neuritis) or the portion behind the globe (retrobulbar neuritis or posterior optic neuritis). (references) |
Medicine | Inflammation of the optic nerve that occurs in two principal forms, intraocular optic neuritis and retrobulbar optic neuritis. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Major symptoms are sudden loss of vision (partial or complete) and occasionally pain on movement of the eyes. Some patients with optic neuritis may lose their color vision, as well. On medical examination the head of the bulging optic nerve can easily be visualised by an ophthalmoscope. In many cases, only one eye is affected and patients may not be aware of the loss of color vision until the doctor asks them to close or cover the healthy eye.
In most cases, visual functions return to normal within a few weeks, but they may also advance to a complete and permanent state of visual loss. Therefore, systemic intravenous treatment with corticosteroids, which may quicken the healing of the optic nerve, prevent complete loss of vision, and delay the onset of other multiple sclerosis symptoms, is strongly recommended. It has been demonstrated that oral administration of corticosteroids in this situation may result in an even worse outcome than that of the non-treated patients (though oral steroids are generally prescribed after the intravenous course, to wean the patient off the medication). This effect of corticosteroids seems to be limited to optic neuritis and has not been observed in other diseases treated with corticosteroids. Very occasionally, the sheath around the optic nerve may be cut off to decrease the pressure and thus increase the pace of healing.
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Crosswords: OPTIC NEURITIS |
| Specialty definitions using "OPTIC NEURITIS": neuritis of the optic nerve. (references) |
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Health | This has led to general recognition of optic neuritis as an early sign of MS, especially if tests also reveal abnormalities in the patient's spinal fluid. (references) | |
Fifty-five percent of MS patients will have an attack of optic neuritis at some time or other and it will be the first symptom of MS in approximately 15 percent. (references) | ||
Extremely variable, including granulomatous hepatitis, peripheral arthritis, spondylitis, anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, meningitis, uveitis, optic neuritis, papilledema, and endocarditis. (references) | ||
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optic neuritis | 198 |
optic neuritis cause | 5 |
optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "OPTIC NEURITIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | opticusneurit (neuritis of the optic nerve), retrobulbær neurit (retrobulbarneuritis), neuropapillitis (neuropapillitis), neuritis optica intraocularis (neuropapillitis), neuritis descendens (retrobulbarneuritis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | neuropapillitis (neuritis of the optic nerve, neuropapillitis), neuritis optica (neuritis of the optic nerve, neuropapillitis), neuritis descendens (retrobulbarneuritis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | neuropapillite, névrite optique (neuritis of the optic nerve), névrite descendante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Optikusneuritis (neuritis of the optic nerve), Papillitis (papillitis), Neuropapillitis optica (neuropapillitis), Neuritis optica s.nervi optici (neuritis of the optic nerve), Neuritis optica intraocularis (neuropapillitis), Neuritis descendens (retrobulbarneuritis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | οπτική νευρίτιδα (neuritis of the optic nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | papillite (papillitis), nevrite retrobulbare (retrobulbarneuritis), nevrite ottica orbitale (retrobulbarneuritis), nevrite ottica (neuritis of the optic nerve), nevrite intraoculare (neuropapillitis), neuropapillite (neuropapillitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opticay euritisnay nevrite óptica (neuritis of the optic nerve). (various references) neuropapilitis (neuropapillitis), neuritis óptica (neuritis of the optic nerve, retrobulbarneuritis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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-2 letters: peritonitis. | |
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+5 letters: immunoprecipitates, incorruptibilities. | |
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