iritis Path.
(aɪˈraɪtɪs)
[mod. f. (1801 in German) ir-is + -itis (see quot. 1855).]
Inflammation of the iris.
| 1818 Travers in A. Cooper & Travers Surg. Ess. i. (ed. 3) 65 By the term ‘Iritis’ I mean to express the deep-seated inflammation of the eye. 1855 Dixon Dis. Eye (1860) 137 We first meet with the word ‘Iritis’ in a treatise by Schmidt of Vienna, published in 1801. 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight v. 58 Iritis..often destroys sight by closing the pupil, and shutting off the light from the interior of the eye. |