NOUN
- adhesions between the iris and the lens or cornea resulting from trauma or eye surgery or as a complication of glaucoma or cataract; can lead to blindness
How To Use synechia In A Sentence
- Adhesions may also develop between the iris and cornea (peripheral anterior synechiae), covering up the trabecular drainage meshwork.
- Moreover, this form of anterior synechia (resulting from a true union of iris and cornea) is so intimate that the iris root is, by the iridectomy, torn away only at the sclero-iridian angle at the anterior border of the adhesion -- and does not open up a channel into Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- One patient developed synechiae between the middle turbinate and the lateral wall of the nose.
