Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

bouchon méatique à collerette droite

English translation:

lacrimal/punctal plugs with non-slanted collarettes

Added to glossary by SJLD
Jul 1, 2010 21:30
13 yrs ago
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French term

bouchon méatique à collerette droite

French to English Medical Medical: Instruments
This entry is part of a list of products of the same kind.
All the other entries are "bouchon méatiques" it is just the product number that changes.
It appears to be a remedy used for obstructed "tear ducts" or dry eyes.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 straight-shaft lacrimal/punctal plugs
Change log

Jul 5, 2010 09:09: SJLD changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/74409">Daniela Ciafardoni's</a> old entry - "bouchon méatique à collerette droite"" to ""straight-shaft lacrimal/punctal plugs""

Proposed translations

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straight-shaft lacrimal/punctal plugs

MomMD Content: Ophthalmologists can tackle dry eye with a variety ...15 Sep 2002 ... "It is a straight-shaft plug." CIBA's TearSaver Punctal Gauging System .... Non-dissolvable Herrick Lacrimal Plugs provide long-term ...
mommd.mediwire.com/main/content.aspx?articleid=31543 - Cached
LaserMyEye: About punctal occlusionJump to Product Reference List: Punctal Plugs‎: Straight shaft. Small, medium, large, x-large ... Herrick Lacrimal Plugs. Silicone. Available in 0.3mm, ...
www.lasermyeye.org/patients_old/dryeye/punctalocclusion.htm... - Cached
Review of Opthamology: August 2001Lacrimedics designed its original non-dissolvable Herrick Lacrimal Plugs to be ... risk sometimes found with the straight shaft design of other plugs. ...
www.revophth.com/2001/September/feature3.htm - Cached - Similar
Physician Instruments - Lacrimedics - The Leader in Lacrimal ...Tapered shaft (27-gauge to 19-gauge) forms a tight seal at the punctum reducing ... Curved, Straight, 1590, Straight. Williams Intracanalicular Plug ...
www.lacrimedics.com/products-instruments.htm

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Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-02 07:23:03 GMT)
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or perhaps "non-slanting collarette".
Have a look in here:
http://www.orasismedtech.com/ZOrasis Cata FCI.pdf

You will see that the collarette is positioned at a slant to the shaft of the plug.

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Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-02 07:24:02 GMT)
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Review of Opthamology: August 2001FCI's Slim Line plugs feature non-slanted collarettes that the company recommends for superior and small posterior puncta from 0.5 and 0.6 mm. ...
www.revophth.com/2001/September/feature3.htm

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Note added at 12 hrs (2010-07-02 09:33:46 GMT)
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another site showing slanted/non-slanted collarettes

http://www.fci-ophthalmics.com/dry-eye-products
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