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DanskSpecialist terms
Not everyone is well versed in the terminology used by an ocularist, so we have compiled a list of the most important specialist terms and sorted them in alphabetical order for your convenience.
| Anophthalmia |
primary: the total absence of one or both eyeballs from birth or following the removal of the bulbus oculi secondary: Degeneration of the eyeball |
| Atrophy |
A wasting or decrease in size of organs or parts thereof |
| Bulbus (Bulbus oculi) |
Eyeball |
| Conformer |
Dummy -> provisional ocular prosthesis |
| Cryolyte glass |
Special glass for the manufacture of ocular prostheses |
| Enucleation (enucleatio bulbi) |
Removal of the eye due to medical indication |
| Epithesis |
Facial prosthesis -> Reproduction of the eye area with incorporated ocular prosthesis |
| Interim prosthesis |
Dummy -> provisional ocular prosthesis |
| Microphtalmia |
Congenital smallness of one or both eyeballs |
| Orbit |
Eye socket |
| Phthisis bulbi |
Atrophy of the eyeball with disorganization and shrinkage |
| Postoperativ |
after the operation |
| Preoperative |
before the operation |
