National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Vitreous Floater

Synonyms

Vitreous Floater

Vitreous Floaters

Floaters

Definitions

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C50808

ALT_DEFINITION

A disorder characterized by an individual seeing spots before their eyes. The spots are shadows of opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.

Spots or stringy shapes in vision, often caused by deposits, aggregates, or cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.

Vitreous opacities which present as small moving spots in the visual field.

code

C50808

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C62596

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C90259

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C54450

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C189762

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C118464

Contributing_Source

CTCAE

FDA

MedDRA

NICHD

DEFINITION

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.

FDA_Table

Patient Code (Appendix B)

FULL_SYN

Vitreous Floater

Vitreous Floaters

Floaters

label

Vitreous Floater

Legacy Concept Name

Vitreous_Floater

Floaters

Maps_To

Floaters

Preferred_Name

Vitreous Floater

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C50808

Semantic_Type

Finding

UMLS_CUI

C0016242

xRef

IMDRF:E083803

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C99208

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C5042

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