Iritis

Iritis. The relations of the iristothe pupil of the eye render the condition known as iritis or inflammation of the iris of very grave significance as affecting sight. In cases where effused lymph is allowed to contract adhesions with the underlying capsule of the lens, distortion of the aperture of the pupil results, and there is a continual tendency to a recurrence of succeeding attacks of iritis after the initial inflammation has passed away. Iritis is particularly apt to appear in association with syphilis; a rheumatic form of iritis is also described. The disease may be the result of injury, and may occur in connection with disease of adjoining structures in the eyeball.