Example sentences of "eye disease " in BNC.
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| 1 | When reports came in of the spread of an eye disease in Cuba that was caused by malnutrition , they rushed to send packets of vitamins . |
| 2 | Retinal photographs were taken by a trained ophthalmic photographer and photographs were classified into five groups ( no abnormality , background changes , maculopathy or proliferative retinopathy , other eye disease , and cataracts , or unreadable ) by specialists in diabetes in conjunction with consultant ophthalmologists when required . |
| 3 | The prevalence of other eye disease was similar in the two groups ( table I ) . |
| 4 | The aims are to provide data that is not currently available about the earliest stages of diabetic eye disease , and enable a reassessment of the screening strategies that are currently used by GPs and optometrists for detecting the condition . |
| 5 | My explanations of this foible have become increasingly baroque of late : I find myself announcing everything from a rare eye disease to undying homage to the early Auden . |
| 6 | A short textbook on diabetic eye disease was sent to each participating optometrist , who also attended educational meetings at which the importance of dilated funduscopy was emphasised . |
| 7 | Julia contracted a rare eye disease , retinitis pigmentosa , when she was two ; which meant she lost part of her retina and gradually her vision . |
| 8 | Free NHS sight tests are available to those on low incomes , children and those especially at risk of eye disease , such as glaucoma sufferers . |
| 9 | Mr. Ian Hunter , Secretary General of the Association of Optometrists , wrote in reply to the Minister 's letter : ’ To restart national health service eye examinations for the over 60s would now cost about £25 million but the cost for not doing so will be two or three times as much because eye disease will remain undetected until treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 10 | In Nigeria , where eye disease is a particular problem , we have provided funding for the building of a number of eye hospitals . |