cyclitic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to inflammation of the ciliary body of the eye; Related to or involving cyclitis.
Example Sentences
- "The retina, together with cyclitic bands, encloses completely the posterior section of the eye."
- "The frequency distributions of cell areas in the cyclitic eyes and the normal ones skewed similarly to the right (Fig. 4)."
- "One patient presented with cyclitic glaucoma which was found to be due to toxoplasmic chorioretinitis and was therefore excluded from the series."
- "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."