Lacrimal Duct Obstruction
"Lacrimal Duct Obstruction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Interference with the secretion of tears by the lacrimal glands. Obstruction of the lacrimal sac or nasolacrimal duct causing acute or chronic inflammation of the lacrimal sac (DACRYOCYSTITIS). It is caused also in infants by failure of the nasolacrimal duct to open into the inferior meatus and occurs about the third week of life. In adults occlusion may occur spontaneously or after injury or nasal disease. (Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p250)
| Descriptor ID |
D007767
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.496.456
|
| Concept/Terms |
Lacrimal Duct Obstruction- Lacrimal Duct Obstruction
- Duct Obstruction, Lacrimal
- Duct Obstructions, Lacrimal
- Lacrimal Duct Obstructions
- Obstruction, Lacrimal Duct
- Obstructions, Lacrimal Duct
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Lacrimal Duct Obstruction".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Lacrimal Duct Obstruction".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lacrimal Duct Obstruction" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lacrimal Duct Obstruction" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Lacrimal Duct Obstruction" by people in Profiles.