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A yellowish thickened lesion on the conjunctiva near the CORNEA representing a benign degenerative change in the CONJUNCTIVA caused by the leakage and deposition of certain blood proteins through the permeable capillaries near the LIMBUS.
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- Pingueculas
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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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2012
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- National Library of Medicine. Pinguecula. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D059407. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D059407
- Pinguecula. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinguecula
- Pinguecula. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1862031