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Definition of Puncta
1. punctum [n] - See also: punctum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puncta
Literary usage of Puncta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"The operation is to be repeated with thicker and thicker pins if necessary, until
the puncta are sufficiently dilated to admit easily a moderately-sized ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Shrunk papillae and contracted state of the, puncta. When the lachrymal puncta
are contracted, the first object should be to endeavor to dilate them, ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"When the lachrymal puncta are contracted, the first object should be to endeavor
to dilate them, and for this purpose a common pin, of a proper thickness, ..."
4. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"Anomalies of the puncta ... and canaliculi have been observed as congenital
anomalies, and Majewski has observed quadruple puncta. ..."
5. A treatise on the diseases of the eye and its appendages by Richard Middlemore (1835)
"If we separate the lids, the margin of the puncta appears red and prominent, ...
If this constricted state of the lachrymal puncta remain after the ..."
6. Girolamo Saccheri's Euclides Vindicatus by Girolamo Saccheri (1920)
"AX, quae ex puncto A per sua quaelibet intermedia puncta continuative ... si talis
ipsa fuerit, ut circa duo illa immota extrema sua puncta possit ipsa in ..."
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