Clearer View of How Eye Lens Proteins Are Sorted Nov 23, 2009
Eyeball cross section illustration (Credit: iStockphoto/Andrew Soo). Related Stories. (Science Daily)
Cable Exclusive Nov 20, 2009
HANNITY: OK. "I looked down to see the moose's eyeballs lying in the palm in his palm, still warm from the critter's head, when he saw the wrinkle in my nose and the shake of my head slightly, he set them aside, he realized that even though he had raised me to be a hunting buddy I had my limits." ... HANNITY: Well, that's for a young girl I don't know what I would do if my father was holding, you know, warm eyeball of a moose. (Fox News)
HEALTH SEC SICK? Oct 22, 2009
If I could get my hands on this gal, I would gladly rip out both her eyeballs and stuff them down her throat. That is exactly what she deserves. (The Drudge Report)
Balloon Boy Saga: This Is A Hoax, Sheriff Says Oct 19, 2009
Scientist my eyeball, the guy's nuts. Posted by: blowhard Location: foolsville on Oct 18, 2009 at 07:30 PM looks like his story was like a big balloon. (KWTX.com, TX)
Health Tip: Use Cosmetics Safely Oct 15, 2009
Don't apply makeup in a car, as a sudden bump or change in speed can lead to serious injury, including the possibility of scratching the eyeball. Don't share cosmetics, which can spread germs. (MEDLINEplus)
Gross Food for Halloween Oct 8, 2009
From Kitty Litter Cake to Bloodshot Eyeballs, gross foods make any Halloween party a success ... And start a green olive into the cream cheese eyeball with the pimento showing. (Suite101.com)
HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy... Sep 25, 2009
Eyeball on September 25, 2009 at 06:32 AM. Where is George Soros in all of this. (The Drudge Report)
Microchip + video glasses = sight for blind? Sep 25, 2009
MIT wants to put the chip inside eyeballs; tests should begin in 3 years ... The camera will send images to a microchip implanted in the eyeball that channels the input to the brain ... The glasses that patients wear contains a coil that can wirelessly transmit power to receiving coils surrounding the eyeball. (CNN -- Tech)
Zazi Indicted for Plotting Terror Attack Sep 25, 2009
" In my book, that makes them no better than the would-be terrorists themselves. All of them are people who somehow believe that they would somehow profit as a result of a successful terrorist attack on the United States and the murder of innocent Americans...the more horrific, the better. I won't post what I really think about these people because it wouldn't get past the censors.*********************************************************************I agree completely with your assessment,... (CBS News)
94th county fair is a show-stopper Sep 24, 2009
This allowed ample time to eyeball various exhibits such as the Gray Hawk Nature Centers hair-raising snake exhibit as well an excavated horse skeleton. Many of the students received ribbons for their own entries. (Nogales International, AZ)
Retinal Implant Could Help Restore Some Vision Sep 24, 2009
Patients who received the implant would wear a pair of glasses with a camera that sends images to a microchip attached to the eyeball. The glasses also contain a coil that wirelessly transmits power to receiving coils surrounding the eyeball ... While they have not yet begun any long-term tests on humans, the researchers have tested the device in Yucatan miniature pigs, which have roughly the same size eyeballs as humans. (Science Daily)
Where to Buy Gross Halloween Candy ... Sep 22, 2009
The small but thoroughly gross selection of novelty candy treats at Oriental Trading Company online mimic everything from yucky body by-products like toe jam and ear wax to an assortment of candy body parts like eyeball candy and candy fingers ... Shoppers can find disgusting candy like boxes of gummy boogers candy or gummy candy pimples that kids can actually squeeze and pop. Halloween party hosts searching for Halloween treat bag stuffers can also stock up on creepy gross candy, like eyeball... (Suite101.com)
A Chip For The Eye? Artificial Vision Enhancers Being Put To The Test Sep 22, 2009
Teams of researchers in Switzerland and Japan, for example, are developing systems in which the chip is no longer implanted in the eye but outside it on the dermis that protects the eyeball in the socket. Only the electrodes that stimulate the nerve cells in the retina are inserted inside the eye through a small incision. (Science Daily)
'24 hours in the ER' shows challenges of health system Sep 8, 2009
Otherwise, he warns, it could dry out like a fish's eyeball left in the sun. He suggests Vasquez wear a patch over his left eye until he's able to blink it again and gives him a prescription for eye drops. (USA Today -- News)
I know! I'll use my new long eyelashes as a mop! Aug 18, 2009
Pulse Perfection mascara is intriguing but I'm nervous about sticking a rod that vibrates at 7,000 times per stroke that close to my eyeball. What if my hand slips. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Humans 2.0: Replacing the mind and body Aug 4, 2009
When President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday that innovation would be a key to the future of the nation, he probably was not thinking specifically of artificial brains or replacement eyeballs ... Eyeballs It's a testament to the complexity of the human eyeball that, 5,000 years after a Persian priestess wore a golden eye to replace the one she lost, little has changed in the science of artificial eyes except for what they're made of. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Distichiasis, An Eye Disease in Dog... Jul 19, 2009
The eye problem arises when these abnormally located eyelashes or hairs contact and irritate the eyeball itself and the surrounding tissues. Distichiasis produces symptoms similar to those seen with other eye problems. (Suite101.com)
Loss of sight Jul 15, 2009
This type of glaucoma is more common in people with a shorter eyeball (particularly old Chinese women). These sufferers will complain of a brow headache (slight pain around the eyes) after prolonged watching of a movie or television. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Retinal Detachment Jul 10, 2009
The retina is the thin layer of tissue located on the back of the eyeball, which contains millions of light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors ... In a pneumatic retinopexy procedure, a gas bubble is injected into the vitreous cavity, while scleral buckling involves placing a band outside the eyeball to push on the detachment. (Suite101.com)
Click to read:Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff Jul 2, 2009
I would love to have any of you voice your opinions to either McCain or the Palins eyeball to eyeball ... I'd love to voice my opinion to either McCain or Palin "eyeball to eyeball". (CBS News)
Kitchen nightmares Jun 29, 2009
If you are lucky, you get an eyeball in your serve ... I have even enjoyed sheep's eyeballs done the same way - as they tasted to me a little like brains. (The Age, Australia)
What will happen during Jackson's autopsy? Jun 27, 2009
Sometimes vitreous humor, the gel from the interior of the eyeball, is also retrieved, as chemical changes that might taint results from other fluids occur more slowly there. If drug overdose is suspected, specimens of liver, brain and perhaps fat tissue would also be taken, depending on where the suspected drugs tend to be deposited. (USA Today -- Life)
A Brief History of the Giallo Film Jun 24, 2009
Other directors who tried their hand include Umberto Lenzi (Knife of Ice, 1972; Eyeball, 1974), Michele Soavi (Deliria, 1987), and Pupi Avati (The House With Laughing Windows, 1976). Sources. (Suite101.com)
Second chance Jun 20, 2009
His right eyeball ruptured and had to be removed and he had several skull fractures, necessitating 18 plates in his skull. Nick at work before the accident. (BBC News -- Health)
Wisconsin Woodsmoke: Summer officially arrives with solstice on Sunday Jun 20, 2009
Toads chew their food, such as worms, with their eyeball muscles. Thats why they close their eyes when eating. (Forest Republican, WI)
Student's Essay: 'Legalize Marijuana' Jun 5, 2009
Symptoms of glaucoma include intraocular pressure, patches of vision loss, headaches, and pain behind the eyeball. Despite making the eyes red marijuana actually lowers intraocular pressure and can prevent as well as cure Glaucoma all together. (KIRO TV, WA)
Pregnant woman allegedly assaulted Jun 5, 2009
didyoumissme3 wrote on Jun 4, 2009 9:40 PM:" i agree with yeswedomind and cop4maury!! what in the hell is wrong with his eyeball? whew that freaks me out! bet this isnt the first time he's done this to her though, bet this is an ongoing thing ". lollie409 wrote on Jun 4, 2009 10:06 PM:" Cop this guy dies not look evil. He was in a very bad car accident several years ago and really messed him up!! This does not excuse what he did, but to this day he still has a brain injury and will never be... (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Intraocular Pressure and Glaucoma May 31, 2009
Glaucoma is an ophthalmologic condition characterized by visual impairment due to increased pressure in the eyeball ... Tonometry: By using an instrument that gently presses on the eyeball, a physician can estimate the patient's intraocular pressure. (Suite101.com)
New Target Identified For Potential Treatment Of Retinopathy In Premature Babies May 12, 2009
Retinopathy, damage to the thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into neural signals sent to the brain, is often caused by the growth of abnormal blood vessels and can lead to loss of vision. Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) affects infants exposed to high oxygen concentrations as a part of the essential treatment they receive to allow their lungs and other organs to develop after premature birth. (Science Daily)
Angry + crazy + violent = all the rage May 9, 2009
Everyone gives everyone the hairy eyeball throughout every conversation. Each fight takes place within a different, tribal venue raucous Russian Jews in a Brooklyn bathhouse; a scary lesbian bar in the Bronx; a mansion full of silent Koreans with glinting eyes and each time, Shawn is seriously outmatched by a snarling opponent but wins by punching him in the head. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Strokes strike kids Apr 28, 2009
"It caused his eyeball to bulge, and it caused blood vessels in his face to swell.". At UCSF, approximately eight hours after the stroke, Summer underwent surgery to remove the clot lodged in his cerebral artery. (San Francisco Chronicle)
20 Years After Attack, 'Central Park Jogger' Offers Hope Apr 20, 2009
My left eye socket had been crushed in, and what the doctors had told me was that the force of the blow was so strong that the eyeball exploded into thin plates of my orbital floor, Meili told FOXNews. com. (Fox News)
Healthy Men Who Took Viagra, Cialis See Fine Apr 15, 2009
Among the 194 men who completed the study, the researchers found no significant differences between treatment and placebo groups on electroretinography, visual function tests, measurements of pressure within the eyeball or assessments of the anatomy of the eye. "Our results indicate that there is no cumulative damage or effect of clinical significance," for the studied doses of either drug, the researchers wrote in the Archives of Ophthalmology. (MEDLINEplus)
8-inch spear removed from boys face Apr 15, 2009
One tip struck Ronilson's right eyebrow and the other embedded itself in the ocular bone beneath the eyeball, which was not affected. Just two weeks ago, doctors removed a 6-inch fishing spear from the brain of a man who was struck while diving off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. (MSNBC -- Health)
Viagra may blur vision only for a while Apr 14, 2009
5%) who completed the study, no significant differences were found between treatment and placebo groups on electroretinography, visual function tests, measurements of intraocular pressure (pressure within the eyeball) or assessments of the anatomy of the eye. Nine participants (two in the placebo group, one in the tadalafil group and six in the sildenafil group) discontinued the study because of an adverse event, but only one of those was an ophthalmologic event (in the placebo group). (India Times, India)
Joseph Demer: In Plane Sight Apr 3, 2009
Although the eyeball, being a sphere, can in theory rotate in any direction, it usually only rotates in a certain subset of these directions, in accordance with something called , notes Demer's colleague Joel Miller, a senior scientist at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. "People had been searching in vain for decades for brain circuitry that coordinated the muscles to work this way," Miller says. (Scientific American)
Current Events Mar 27, 2009
Homo Sapien wrote on Mar 25, 2009 11:33 PM:" So let me get this right a star exploded and miraculously an ameba landed in boiling hot water and millions of years later the most perfect creation on earth evolved? Human. OK! Let's start all over. BOOOOM! Ameba in hot water. Now what part of the human was created from the ameba first? I guess it was an eyeball to see what the heck it wanted to evolve into. Well I guess it wanted to become a fish first. Didn't everything begin in the ocean? Where's... (New Iberia, LA)
Teen dinosaurs hung out, got into trouble Mar 17, 2009
"We even know the size of its eyeball," Sereno said. "Sinornithomimus is destined to become one of the best-understood dinosaurs in the world.". (MSNBC -- Environment)
Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together Mar 16, 2009
"We even know the size of its eyeball," Sereno said. "Sinornithomimus is destined to become one of the best- understood dinosaurs in the world.". (EurekAlert!)
Poking out an eye Feb 7, 2009
But you can cut or crush an eye, tearing through the front layers to the vitreous humor, a gooey gel like egg whites that fills much of the eyeball. That's called globe rupture. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
