Word: optically
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...custody and had forwarded their petitions of complaint to Bihar's inspector general. The government has also named a team of ophthalmologists to determine if any prisoner's vision can be restored. There may be hope for a few victims, but in most cases, the optic nerves have been destroyed. Mrs. Gandhi has promised about $2,000 compensation to each victim. "I want to express my deep agony over what has happened," she told parliament. "I felt physically sickened when I heard. What are we coming to in this country? That anyone could do such a thing...
...Arthur Boland, the team orthopedic surgeon, said yesterday the surgery involved looking inside the knee with a fiber optic lens called an orthoscope to determine the extent of damage to the cartilage...
...under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They prefer to excise it from the head, where there are no major blood vessels...
...reading. The tension stretches and strains the sclera. Though such stretching is normally elastic, if it is both frequent and extreme enough the sclera does not return to its normal position and myopia develops. Second, the eye is least able to reduce strain near the point where the optic nerve enters the eye--Greene draws an analogy with the rivet holes in airplane wings, the weakest point of an airplane's body. This factor may explain why myopia is concentrated about the optic nerve...
...biomechanical model shows that myopia is both acquired and inherited. Excessive stress may explain how it is acquired, while location of the oblique muscles explains how it may be inherited. If someone is born with their oblique muscles attached near the optic nerve, they are more prone to myopia than most individuals...