The International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Monitoring Systems defines anophthalmia and microphthalmia as "anophthalmos/microphthalmos: apparently absent or small eyes. (biomedcentral.com)
Microphthalmos2
Anophthalmos, microphthalmos, and typical coloboma in the United Kingdom: a prospective study of incidence and risk. (medscape.com)
Anophthalmos, microphthalmos, and typical coloboma (AMC) form an interrelated spectrum of congenital eye anomalies that can cause significant visual loss and cosmetic disfigurement in children. (nih.gov)
Abnormalities2
Other congenital abnormalities include cyclopia and anophthalmos. (vin.com)
Major congenital anomalies were defined in accordance with the European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies (EUROCAT) registry and included abnormalities such as anophthalmos, bilateral renal agenesis, congenital heart disease, limb reduction, neural tube defects, oral-facial clefts, and many others. (medscape.com)
Bilateral1
Case of congenital bilateral anophthalmus. (nih.gov)
MeSH1
Anophthalmos" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (ouhsc.edu)
True2
True or primary anophthalmos is very rare. (medscape.com)
Only when there is a complete absence of the ocular tissue within the orbit can a diagnosis of true anophthalmos be made. (medscape.com)
Rare2
Congenital anophthalmos is a very rare condition that has a reported prevalence rate of 0.18 per 10,000 births. (medscape.com)
Typical colobomatous defects were the commonest phenotype, and anophthalmos was rare (n = 7). (nih.gov)
Family1
Lethata anophthalma is a moth of the family Depressariidae. (wikipedia.org)