How to Use ocular in a Sentence

ocular

adjective

• In April, when the town signed contracts for those studies, 12 cases of ocular melanoma were known.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 22 June 2017
• For the last decade, the role of the microbiome in ocular health was controversial.
  — Scientific American, 23 June 2019
• The rubber ring that keeps the sharp edge of the ocular lens from biting the brow came off somewhere during our low-light testing.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 Aug. 2020
• She was diagnosed in 2011 with ocular melanoma and spent five years in treatment for the rare eye cancer.
  — Jonel Aleccia and Melissa Bailey, CNN, 2 Nov. 2017
• Brennan was also struck by the number of cases of ocular melanoma in one town.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 Apr. 2017
• The victim, whose last name is Yao, is in the ICU and is on a waitlist for an ocular surgeon who can repair damage to his eye.
  — Houston Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
• In about 50% of ocular melanoma cases, the cancer spreads, or metastasizes, to the liver.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 1 May 2018
• The only potential drawback is that the 45-degree ocular tube may be hard for kids to see through.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
• But could an ocular dosing of the treatment help patients whose disease affects the tissues of the eye?
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 8 Feb. 2024
• Although ocular melanoma is the most common type of eye cancer, that doesn’t mean it’s widespread.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 1 May 2018
• Sam Hell was born with an ocular albinism, which causes his eyes to appear red.
  — courant.com, 14 May 2021
• Symptoms of uveitis include ocular pain and reddening of the eye.
  — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2020
• The mids are terming and Trump keeps teasing coming back, a bit like rerunning a TV show that gave half the country an ocular migraine.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2022
• Viewing it for more than a minute is ocular agony, the visual equivalent of an overdose.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• One of them pricked my eyeballs with a sharp instrument, allowing the ocular fluid that had built up to drain.
  — Bernard J. Wolfson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• The same man was found to have given five middle-aged white women in southwest Michigan ocular syphilis.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• The senior pup was found with an untreated wound on his head, very underweight with ocular discharge and found to have tick fever.
  — azcentral, 21 Feb. 2020
• Then Karl would mount Kujo’s skull on the roadside façade of his home, next to the whitened horse pelvis and steer’s skull—the latter appointed with the ocular prostheses of two red Ping-Pong balls.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The longer the ocular surface is inflamed, the more uncomfortable the patient becomes.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 1 Aug. 2018
• In a strange twist of fate, Eichelberger found out a few months ago that her 7-year-old daughter has a form of ocular dystrophy that affects her eyesight.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2022
• All the animals are rescues — even the hamster, which had an ocular condition that prompted Charlotte to take it home from a pet store.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2021
• And thank you to these two helpful yet lifeless dolls whose vacant ocular cavities will haunt me until end times.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2017
• Only some species of shark, including the great white, use ocular rotation to protect their eyes.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
• In the late fifties, Efim Liberman claimed to have figured out how the ocular nerve transmitted different colors to the brain with a pattern of impulses over time.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• Kash Pressley was born with ocular albinism, an eye condition that reduces the coloring of the iris and retina.
  — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 18 Oct. 2017
• Early in the film, Kafuku is diagnosed with glaucoma in his left eye and prescribed eye drops to reduce the ocular pressure.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022
• Ocular syphilis, which can strike at any stage of infection, often appears as blurred vision and reddened eyes.
  — Author: Jan Hoffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Aug. 2017
• She'd been diagnosed with ocular melanoma, a rare eye cancer that had the potential to spread and cross her placenta to infect the babies in vitro.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
• While most cases of rosacea display on the cheeks, nose and forehead, some people have a form called ocular rosacea, which causes inflammation, redness and dryness of the eyes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• In an echo of what happened in Chile, Colombia saw a dramatic spike in traumatic ocular injuries.
  — Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024