Word: conjunctiva
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...pensioner, 71, who had had both eyes removed because of injury and infection (not trachoma). Into his empty eye sockets the researchers inoculated their egg-grown trachoma virus. He had considerable discomfort for the first week, and slight discomfort for two weeks more. Though his conjunctiva continued to secrete infective virus, he has needed no treatment...
...from circulatory or muscular disturbances in their eyes reported that their vision was greatly improved. Professor Alvaro has not yet been successful in isolating the specific eye principle, has used only small injections of diluted complete venom, or mixtures of various types of venom. Injection of venom under the conjunctiva (delicate membrane covering the eyeball) has relieved severe pain arising from inflammation of the cornea, stopped bleeding from ocular diseases...
With his patient under anesthetic, he loosens a strip of conjunctiva, about a quarter of an inch wide, from the upper part of the eyeball. This is to function later as a bandage to hold the graft in position until it takes hold of the host...
...inch. He has already applied the trephine to the cold-storage eye which an assistant holds by means of sterile gauze. Transferring the donor cornea to the host eye is the work of only a few minutes. Dr. Filatov straps the graft in position with the prepared strip of conjunctiva, withdraws the ivory guard from its slots, bandages both eyes to immobilize the engrafted one as much as possible. After a lapse of weeks the patient can see, adequately if not perfectly. In his last week's report Dr. Filatov remarked...
...discolored after his July 3 fight with W. L. ("Young") Stribling. Last week was published an official diagnosis made by two physicians to the Boxing Board of Deutschland: "The left eye of Mr. Schmeling . . . shows an injury to the bony surroundings of the eye, bleeding of the conjunctiva, and a contusion of the eyeball, connected with swimming of objects before the eye and photophobe. . . ." The diagnosis made it plain that Max Schmeling will not defend his championship against Monstrous Primo Camera next September...
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