RETINITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retinitis mean? 

• RETINITIS (noun)
  The noun RETINITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the retina

  Familiarity information: RETINITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETINITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the retina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("retinitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retinitis"):

chorioretinitis (inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina)

 Context examples 

However, in retinitis pigmentosa the researchers found that the microglia target damaged but living photoreceptors, in addition to dead ones.

(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)

Defects in the IMPDH1 gene cause autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa type 10.

(IMPDH1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists monitored the genetic expression of the complement system in a transgenic mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

This gene is a potential candidate gene for retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome type II.

(Phosducin, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

Overall, fomivirsen inhibits viral propagation via inhibiting viral replication and viral uptake by host cells, hence delaying progression of CMV-associated retinitis.

(Fomivirsen Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic organic analog of inorganic pyrophosphate with activity against several types of viruses, but primarily used for the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis.

(Foscarnet, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the gene have been associated with disruption of the retinal pigment epithelium phagocytosis pathway and onset of autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa.

(MERTK wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings point to potential therapies for controlling inflammation and slowing progression of rare retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

Clinical signs of Laurence-Moon syndrome include ataxia, intellectual delay, retinitis pigmentosa and hypogonadism.

(Laurence-Moon Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in tissue homeostasis and mutations in the gene are associated with the onset of autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa.

(MERTK Gene, NCI Thesaurus)