Iritis often occurs during the exhibition of mercury in undue quantities, and is said also to be a symptom of syphilitic taint.
This peculiarity was evidently congenital, and no traces of a central pupil nor marks of a past iritis could be found.
Footnote 84: "In the cases of this form of iritis which are seen in ordinary eye-practice much damage has often been done by occlusion of the pupil and deeper mischief.
The subjects of infantile iritisare much more frequently of the female than the male sex.
Footnote 85: It will not be uninteresting, perhaps, to append the aphorisms regarding iritis in infants which Mr. Hutchinson at that time enunciated: 1.
It is remarkable that iritis very seldom occurs as a complication of acute articular rheumatism.
Syphilitic iritis in infants is often symmetrical, but quite as frequently not so.
The average age at the time the iritis commenced was five months and a half.
Most of those who suffer from syphiliticiritis are infants born within a short period of the date of the primary disease in their parents.
Infants suffering from iritis should always show one or other of the well-recognized symptoms of hereditary taint.
Iridectomy for iritis should be performed when the inflammation has entirely subsided.
It may be complicated by deeper inflammations of the eye such as iritis and cyclitis.
Vision suffers from extension of the infiltration to the cornea, or from iritis with its attendant synechiae, or from anterior choroiditis, and sometimes also from secondary glaucoma.
An acute attack of iritis usually lasts about six weeks.
The treatment sometimes required for cases of old iritis is iridectomy.
If a case of iritis be left to itself or treated without the use of a mydriatic, posterior synechiae almost invariably form.
In addition, iritis may be secondary to keratitis, scleritis or choroiditis.
In these cases, as well as in all cases of plastic iritis which have not been properly treated, serious consequences to sight are apt to follow from the binding down of the iris to the lens capsule and the occlusion of the pupil by exudation.
In some cases, and more particularly in men, there is a tendency to the recurrence at longer or shorter intervals of attacks of iritis (recurrent iritis).
The treatment of iritis necessarily differs to some extent according to the cause.
In infected cases a complication with iritis is not uncommon owing to the penetration of toxines into the anterior chamber.
When he next appeared, four days later, I was alarmed to perceive that unmistakable iritis had fully developed itself, the iris was already turbid and discolored and the pupil irregular, from a serious amount of adhesions.
The sores both on cheek and tongue assumed more and more a gangrenous appearance, and on the sixteenth day from the commencement of iritis there was considerable loss of substance in both these situations.
For the first three or four days after the iritis set in, the neuralgic pains went on augmenting in intensity, and extended into all three divisions of the fifth; there was a copious discharge from the right nostril.
In September of this year I had two cases of iritis in which the intra-ocular tension rose to 45 and 52 mm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iritis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
