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What are the symptoms of lacrimal duct obstruction?
An obstructed lacrimal tear duct can result in inflammation and infection of the lacrimal sac. The area beneath the eyes next to the nose can become red, inflamed, and sensitive to the touch. The area usually is swollen, and.
What are the causes of lacrimal duct obstruction?
A lacrimal duct obstruction is blockage of the tear duct, the thin channel that normally drains tears from the surface of the eye.
What is the prognosis for a patient with lacrimal duct obstruction?
If more conservative approaches fail to clear the obstruction, surgical procedures are available, with success rates greater than 90%.
Another name for the tear duct?
Another name for the tear duct is the lacrimal duct. It is responsible for draining tears from the eyes into the nasal cavity.
What duct connects the lacrimal apparatus to nasal cavity?
nasolacrimal duct
What is the medical term meaning surgical incision into the lacrimal duct?
Lacrimotomy is surgical incision into the lacrimal duct, commonly known as the tear duct of the eye.lacrimotomy
What is the function of the lacrimal duct?
a duct that carries tears from a gland out to the surface of the eye
What is the correct order in the flow of tears?
Lacrimal gland, lacrimal duct, superior or inferior lacrimal canal, lacrimal sac, nasolacrimal duct, nasal cavity
How is lacrimal duct obstruction diagnosed?
If the primary symptom is excessive tearing, the first step is for the health care professional to determine if the overflow of tears is due to an increase in tear production or a decrease in tear drainage.
What is the pathway that the lacrimal gland takes from the surface of the eye?
Tears are produced by the lacrimal gland and the accessory lacrimal glands and cover the cornea. Tears then drain out the punctum in the medial eyelids, flow down the canaliculi into the lacrimal sac. They then drain down the nasolacrimal duct into the nose at the inferior meatus (under the inferior turbinate).from the lacrimal galnd to the lacrimal canals (lacrimal puncta canaliculi) to the lacrimal sace, then the nasolacrimal duct and finally the nasal cavity
What is the medical term meaning Bile duct destruction?
I think you mean Bile duct obstruction, you can call it Biliary obstruction
What is lacrimal sac of definition?
The dilated upper end of the nasolacrimal duct.
