The treatment of primary keratitis must vary according to the cause.
The duration of a secondary keratitis is usually prolonged, often lasting many months.
The principal causes of primary keratitis are traumata and infection from the conjunctiva.
The main cause of neuro-paralytic keratitis lies in the greater vulnerability of the cornea.
Primary keratitis may be ulcerative or non-ulcerative, superficial or deep, diffuse or circumscribed, vascularized or non-vascularized.
Suppurative keratitis is seldom noticed for the first day or two--not until distinct pus formation has occurred.
If the disease advances, keratitis results, with its train of unfavorable symptoms.
Sometimes keratitisexists in a herd as a transmissible disease, spreading like infectious conjunctivitis.
Inflammation is the only known cause, although it may not occur immediately; it frequently follows catarrhal conjunctivitis and keratitis as a sequela.
It may be apparently harmless for a long time, but will eventually induce keratitis with inflammatory exudations.
Diffuse keratitis is characterized by an exudation into and an opacity of the cornea.
After a time (usually about the end of the third week) keratitis punctata makes its appearance, and the tension of the eye may become decreased or occasionally increased.
It need hardly be said that there should be no signs of cyclitis (keratitis punctata) present when the operation is undertaken.
Care should be taken to see that no keratitis punctata is present before the operation is undertaken.
If the eye does not settle down after one of the operations described below, especially if irido-cyclitis with keratitis punctata should have supervened.
It is most important that every eye that has been operated on should be examined for the presence of keratitis punctata, especially before allowing the patient to use the eye or before another operation is performed on it.
Irido-cyclitis; if this be prolonged, and keratitispunctata appear, enucleation should be performed.
As the early stages of cyclitis may give rise to tension, it is essential that every case of glaucoma should be examined for keratitis punctata before operation.
The ophthalmia and keratitis were possibly caused by the irritating substances applied to the wound by the Chinese doctors.
The seventh was under treatment for interstitial keratitis and tuberculous ulceration of the lips and throat.
She presented characteristic teeth, traces of choroiditis, and, while under treatment, suffered from both keratitis and iritis.
The chief point of interest, however, in the diagnosis of interstitial keratitis is its association with other symptoms of syphilis, upon which, for the general practitioner at least, the diagnosis will usually depend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keratitis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cataract; eye; glaucoma; trachoma; walleye
