cyclitic

English

Adjective

cyclitic

1. (ophthalmology) Pertaining to inflammation of the ciliary body of the eye; Related to or involving cyclitis.
   • 1899, Louis Stricker, The Crystalline Lens System:

     The retina, together with cyclitic bands, encloses completely the posterior section of the eye.

   • 1986, Anja Ihalainen, Acta Ophthalmologica - Volume 64, page 627:

     The frequency distributions of cell areas in the cyclitic eyes and the normal ones skewed similarly to the right (Fig. 4).

   • 1989, Anne M. V. Brooks, “Cyclitic glaucoma”, in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology, page 161:

     One patient presented with cyclitic glaucoma which was found to be due to toxoplasmic chorioretinitis and was therefore excluded from the series.

   • 2023, Carl Stellwag, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, page 302:

     This operation has already been repeatedly performed with favorable results (Ed. Meyer, Laurence, Secondi), but iis unreliable (Critchett, Mooren), leads in half the cases to phthisis bulbe (Ed. Meyer), and succeeds only in those cases in which one or the other bundle of ciliary nerves is manifestly irritated, and the second eye is becoming involved; it must, however, necessarily fail where the ciliary body is completely involved in the cyclitic process , and where this is indicated by the sensitiveness to palpation at every single point of the anterior scleral zone.

Derived terms

• cyclitic membrane
• glaucomatocyclitic