A noninflammatory, usually bilateral protrusion and thinning of the CORNEA, the apex being displaced downward and nasally. It occurs most commonly in females at about puberty. Two closely related noninflammatory corneal ectasias are pellucid marginal degeneration and keratoglobus.
    

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The physical factor in conical cornea / by John Tweedy.

Conical cornea : its surgical evolution / by Sir Anderson Critchett.

Du kératocône et de sa correction par les verres coniques / par N.-P. Bénaky.

Eye care and diseases ephemera. Box 1.

On conical cornea / by James H. Pickford.

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The physical factor in conical cornea / by John Tweedy.

Conical cornea : its surgical evolution / by Sir Anderson Critchett.

Du kératocône et de sa correction par les verres coniques / par N.-P. Bénaky.

Eye care and diseases ephemera. Box 1.

On conical cornea / by James H. Pickford.