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Abstract
Suppurative inflammation of the tissues of the internal structures of the eye frequently associated with an infection.
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- Ophthalmia
- Endophthalmitides
- Ophthalmias
- Infectious Endophthalmitis
- Endophthalmitides, Infectious
- Endophthalmitis, Infectious
- Infectious Endophthalmitides
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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restrict to endophthalmitis as a specific disease entity, not as a coordinate for inflammation of specific internal parts of the eye: these are available as -ITIS terms; ophthalmitis goes here; PANOPHTHALMITIS is also available: inflammation of all structures of the eye; EGYPTIAN OPHTHALMIA see TRACHOMA is also available
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90; was OPHTHALMIA 1966-89
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Endophthalmitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009877. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009877
- Endophthalmitis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endophthalmitis
- Endophthalmitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1294912