ptosis
Sign in to saveAlso known as blepharoptosis, drooping eyelid, Eyelid Ptosis
eye disease characterized by the drooping or falling of the upper eyelid
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ t oʊ s ɪ s /
- Specialty
- Ophthalmology , optometry , neurology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Congenitalptosis.JPG
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- health specialty
- ophthalmology
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C27298
- Commons category
- Ptosis (eyelid)
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000369
- ICD-9-CM
- 374.3
- different from
- exophthalmos
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
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Encyclopedic overview
Ptosis, also known as blepharoptosis, is a drooping or falling of the upper eyelid. This condition is sometimes called "lazy eye", but that term normally refers to the condition amblyopia. If severe enough and left untreated, the drooping eyelid can cause other conditions, such as amblyopia or astigmatism, so it is especially important to treat the disorder in children before it can interfere with vision development.
Signs and symptoms
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ptosis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.