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• Iridectomy

  The process of making a hole in the iris. Iridectomy is a treatment for glaucoma.

• Iridology

  The practice of diagnosing disease by examining the iris of the eye. Although some diseases affect the eye, iridology is not considered scientific medicine.

• Iris

  The circular, colored curtain of the eye. The opening of the iris forms the pupil. The iris helps regulate the amount of light that enters the eye.

• Iris, speckled

  Due to little white (or lightly colored) spots that are slightly elevated on the surface of the iris. These spots, arranged in a ring concentric with the pupil, occur normally, but more frequently, in Down syndrome (trisomy 21). They were described in 1924 by Thomas Brushfield, are called Brushfield’s spots, and are due to aggregation […]

• Iritis

  Inflammation of the interior eye structures.

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