Concept information
Preferred term
Myopia, Degenerative
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Excessive axial myopia associated with complications (especially posterior staphyloma and CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION) that can lead to BLINDNESS. Myopia that increases at an abnormally rapid rate or increases after maturity (Hofstetter et al, Dictionary of Visual Science and Related Clinical Terms, 5th ed).
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Myopia, Pathological
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemically induced (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- congenital (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiotherapy (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Myopie pathologique
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-JKG6N8X9-Q
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