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To close and open the eyelids rapidly several times or once. To open and close the eyes involuntarily; to wink rapidly. Blinking, which normally occurs about 12 to 20 times a minute, helps protect the cornea against microscopic injury. It occurs less often in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, and more often in meningitis…

A condition which occurs in cases of diverticulosis or of Crohn’s disease, with steatorrhoea, abdominal pain and megaloblastic anaemia. Condition resulting from an undesirable change in the anatomy of the small intestine where a loop is formed in which intestinal contents enter but cannot leave. A condition resulting from alterations in the structure of the…

A condition in which the upper eyelid is half closed because of paralysis of the muscle or nerve.  

Inflammation of the conjunctive of the eyelids.  

Referring to the eyelid.  

An antibiotic used to treat forms of cancer such as Hodgkin’s disease. An antibiotic with action against cancer cells, used in the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and other lymphomas and in squamous-cell carcinoma. It is administered by injection and can cause toxic side-effects in the skin and lungs; it should not be used in patients…

A place in the body where bleeding is taking place.  

A blood vessel which bleeds during surgery. A person who has haemophilia (informal). A colloquial term for one whose ability to coagulate blood is either deficient or absent, so that small cuts and injuries lead to prolonged bleeding. A person with hemophilia experiences a condition where their blood is unable to clot properly.  

A type of parasitic fungus which affects the skin. A genus of yeast like budding fungi pathogenic to humans. At room temperature these fungi grow in a moldlike mycelial form, and at body temperature in a yeast like form.