slit lamp

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Noun1.slit lamp - (ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve
electric lamp - a lamp powered by electricity
ophthalmology - the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases
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vitrectomy with catarac text raction (assessed with slitlamp biomicroscope); patients with pre-existing intra-ocular in flammation i.e.
Slitlamp was used and a thin beam of slit was placed on the cornea to mark at 3 and 9 O'clock position.
(14) ScKC was diagnosed using criteria defined in previous studies, (15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23) including corneal topography with abnormal localized steepening or an asymmetric bow-tie pattern, a normal-appearing cornea on slitlamp biomicroscopy and at least 1 of the following signs: steep keratometric curvature (>47.0 overall deviation [D]), oblique cylinder >1.5 D, central corneal thickness less than 500 mm and being the fellow eye of clinical KC, with or without abnormal topography.
Slitlamp examination and fundoscopy findings were normal bilaterally.
(a) Preoperative (left) and 1 month postoperative (right) slitlamp image of the right eye of a 62-year-old female patient who underwent DMEK.
On slitlamp biomicroscopy, a 5 X 4-mm, axial, superficial corneal ulcer with loose epithelial edges was found (Fig 1).
Slitlamp biomicroscopy revealed normal depth of the anterior chamber, an intact anterior capsule, and a ruptured posterior capsule (transversely in 1 eye and longitudinally in 3 eyes, Figure 1) with or without vitreous prolapse into the opaque lens cortex.
Slitlamp and gonioscopic examination (Viewlight CSL-4U from optivision2020) were supplemented.
PCO was recorded by the examiners via slitlamp biomicroscopy (SL-450 - Nidek Co, Japan) and indirect ophthalmoscopy (OHC--3.3--Opto Eletronica S.A., Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil) on a scale of 0-4 as previously described (BRAS et al., 2006).
She had such gentleness when she wanted to settle a patient on the slitlamp for a closer look at their eyes.