Schlemm

If the canal of Schlemm is for any reason narrowed or plugged " through fibrous ingrowths or inflammation, infection, or the gathering of debris " the aqueous humor cannot escape rapidly enough and the internal pressure begins to rise.

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

This duct is called the canal of Schlemm after the German anatomist Friedrich Schlemm, who described it in 1830.

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

It is not, therefore, difficult to understand why iridectomy alone in any of the forms of chronic glaucoma fails to open up the true filtration spaces and does not provide a drain that permits of an escape of fluid from the posterior chamber through the loose tissue that surrounds it into the canal of Schlemm.

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

The spongy nature of this meshwork affords free access of aqueous to the venous sinus of Schlemm, thence by tributaries into the supra-choroidal space and anterior uveal venous system.

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

It even is considered probable that the effects of an iridectomy which brings about more or less permanent reduction in the intra-ocular pressure is due to the formation of a filtering scar which augments whatever results may have been secured in the attempt to open up the drainage into the canal of Schlemm.

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

The absence of the canal of Schlemm is noted in congenital buphthalmos.

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

Schlemm and from this space into _the external lymph channels_.

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

In the inner part of the sclera close to this junction is a circular canal, the sinus venosus scleræ (canal of Schlemm).

X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye 1918

Count Schlemm-Nottheim was the table companion of the Baroness; he had her tell him who the various personages from the world of art were.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

Posterior chamber Ciliary body Scleral venous sinus (canal of Schlemm) Anterior chamber

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