Definitions for ophthalmia, sympathetic
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Ophthalmia, Sympathetic
Granulomatous uveitis which follows in one eye after a penetrating injury to the other eye; the secondarily affected eye is called the sympathizing eye, and the injured eye is called the exciting or activating eye.
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