An obsolete term for adhesion of the eyelid to the eyeball. ... Origin: symblepharon + pterygium ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(sim-blef″ә-ro-tәr-ij´e-әm) symblepharon in which the adhesion is a cicatricial band resembling a pterygium.
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symblepharopterygium The union of eyelid, or adhesion of the eyelid, to the eyeball by a cicatricial (scar) band of membrane similar to a pterygium. A pterygium is a winglike triangular membrane. Although a pterygium can be anywhere, including behind the knee, it commonly refers to a winglet of the conjunctiva (a thin clear moist membrane that coa...
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