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hyperopia due to shortening of the anteroposterior diameter of the globe of the eye.

sclerosis of the pulmonary arteries in chronic cor pulmonale; associated with severe cyanosis, it is a condition resembling polycythemia vera but resulting from primary pulmonary arteriosclerosis or primary pulmonary hypertension and characterized by plexiform lesions of arterioles. Syn: Ayerza’s disease, cardiopathia nigra, plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy.

J. Ernest, U.S. gynecologist, *1910. See: Ayre brush.

a lenticular opacity in the visual axis of the lens.

one of the skeletal muscle’s of the trunk or head.

the transmission or reflection of light in the direction of the axis of an optical system. Syn: central illumination.

G., Italian neurologist, 1878–1943. See: Ayala’s index, Ayala’s quotient.

L., Argentinian physician, 1861–1918. See: Ayerza’s disease, Ayerza’s syndrome.

Abbreviation for azidothymidine.

myopia due to elongation of the globe of the eye.