Pathologic Function
vitreous hemorrhage
vit·re·ous hem·or·rhage [ vi-tree-uhs hem-er-ij, hem-rij ]
Subclass of:
Eye Hemorrhage
Definitions related to vitreous hemorrhage:
  • Bleeding within the vitreous compartment of the eye.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • Blood extravasation in the vitreous humor.
    U.S. FDA Glossary
    U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 2021
  • Blood extravasation in the vitreous humor. Causes include neovascularization, retinal tear, retinal detachment, and rupture of a blood vessel aneurysm in the eye.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Hemorrhage into the VITREOUS BODY.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • A disorder characterized by bleeding into the vitreous humor.
    Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
    U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2021
  • Vitreous hemorrhage is the extravasation of blood into one of the several potential spaces formed within and around the vitreous body. This condition may result directly from retinal tears or neovascularization of the retina, or it may be related to bleeding from preexisting blood vessels in these structures.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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