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    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...
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    Ptosis or sagging of the female breast is a natural consequence of aging. The rate at which a woman's breasts drop and the degree of ptosis depends on...
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  • Look up ptosis or ptotic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ptosis (from Greek πτῶσις  'falling, a fall, dropped') refers to droopiness or abnormal downward...
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    canthus), low nasal bridge, ptosis of the eyelids and telecanthus. Blepharophimosis forms a part of blepharophimosis, ptosis, epicanthus inversus syndrome...
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  • Ptosis crutches (also known as eye crutches) are a non-surgical solution to ptosis, also known as drooping eyelid syndrome. Affected eyes do not have the...
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  • A ptotic chin is a chin that droops over the jawline. Ptosis of the tip of the chin is common and can be seen in persons of any age. It is frequently seen...
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  • Thumbnail for Blepharophimosis, ptosis, epicanthus inversus syndrome
    ptosis, epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) is a rare medical anomaly characterized by the conditions it is named after: blepharophimosis, ptosis and...
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    Nephroptosis (redirect from Ptosis (renal))
    Nephroptosis is rare and abnormal condition in which the kidney drops down (ptosis) into the pelvis when the patient stands up. It is more common in women...
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    sympathetic trunk. It is characterized by miosis (a constricted pupil), partial ptosis (a weak, droopy eyelid), apparent anhidrosis (decreased sweating), with...
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  • oversized breasts. Psychologically, a mastopexy procedure to correct breast ptosis is not indicated by medical cause or physical reason, but by the self-image...
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    the abdominal viscera (internal organs) below their natural position. "Ptosis" being the defining term, any or all of the organs may be displaced downward...
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  • Thumbnail for Conductive deafness-ptosis-skeletal anomalies syndrome
    Conductive deafness-ptosis-skeletal anomalies syndrome, also known as Jackson Barr syndrome is a rare presumably autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized...
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    Blepharophimosis-ptosis-esotropia-syndactyly-short stature syndrome is a very rare genetic and congenital disorder which is characterized by blepharophimosis, ptosis,...
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    symptom of MG is related to the muscles around the eye. Eyelid drooping (ptosis may occur due to weakness of m. levator palpebrae superioris) and double...
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    breast, the degree of inframammary intertrigo present, the degree of breast ptosis, the degree of enlargement of each breast, lesions to the skin envelope...
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  • fracture of the orbit), Horner's syndrome (apparent enophthalmos due to ptosis), Marfan syndrome, Duane's syndrome, silent sinus syndrome or phthisis bulbi...
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    Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) is a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive loss of muscle...
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  • film, director: M. Galanakis, production: G.F.C., Aigokeros SA, 1997 H Ptosi (The Fall), short film, director: M. Galanakis, production: ET1 channel...
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  • Meibomian gland dysfunction Entropion Ectropion Lagophthalmos Blepharochalasis Ptosis Blepharophimosis Xanthelasma Ankyloblepharon Eyelash Trichiasis Madarosis...
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  • facies. Commonly characterized by hypertelorism, congenital nonmyopathic ptosis, iris or retinal coloboma, deafness, epilepsy, and pachygyria. Individuals...
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    this condition presents in approximately 5% of neonates with congenital ptosis. This condition has been associated with amblyopia (in 54% of cases), anisometropia...
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  • but may also occur with cicatricial changes to the eyelid or congenital ptosis. Lid lag differs from Von Graefe's sign in that the latter is a dynamic...
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    believe that sagging (ptosis) is caused by the failure of the Cooper's ligaments to support the breast tissue. In fact, ptosis is partly determined by...
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    muscle or its innervation can cause ptosis, which is drooping of the eyelid. Lesions in CN III can cause ptosis, because without stimulation from the...
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    Meibomian gland dysfunction Entropion Ectropion Lagophthalmos Blepharochalasis Ptosis Blepharophimosis Xanthelasma Ankyloblepharon Eyelash Trichiasis Madarosis...
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    developing dermatochalasis, and men and women are equally affected. Cutis laxa Ptosis Goldman, Lee (2011). Goldman's Cecil Medicine (24th ed.). Philadelphia:...
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    Romesh Ranganathan (category People with ptosis (eyelid))
    Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan (born 27 March 1978) is a British actor, comedian and presenter with a Sri Lankan background . His style of comedy is deadpan...
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  • most common symptoms are double vision (diplopia) and eyelid drooping (ptosis), whereas the pupil is always spared. Diplopia occurs when MG affects a...
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    smell, taste, hearing, or vision (total or partial) drooping of eyelid (ptosis) and weakness of ocular muscles decreased reflexes: gag, swallow, pupil...
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    novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths. In 1999, Rushdie had an operation to correct ptosis, a problem with the levator palpebrae superioris muscle that causes drooping...
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