blepharospasm

However, BOTOX (c) is a registered trademark for a prescription drug product used successfully around the world since 1991 to treat a rare and previously devastating condition known as blepharospasm, in which a sufferer's eyelids spasm to such an extent as to cause functional blindness.

For Medicinal Purposes 2008

Ray Greek, M. D.Science AdviserNational Anti-Vivisection SocietyChicago, IllinoisCorrectionIn the "Popular Shots" graphic accompanying "A New Reason to Frown," we reversed meanings and should have said that an eyelid spasm is called blepharospasm, and lazy eye is strabismus.

Mail Call: Green-Challenged 2008

Simon, 40, was diagnosed with a form of dystonia called blepharospasm in 2005.

unknown title 2009

Botox is approved for treatment of conditions such as blepharospasm (spasm of the eyelids), cervical dystonia

NewsInferno 2009

Botox is approved for treatment of conditions such as blepharospasm (spasm of the eyelids), cervical dystonia (severe neck muscle spasms), and severe primary axillary hyperhydrosis (excess sweating).

NewsInferno 2008

But benign essential blepharospasm challenged me to look at the world differently.

Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010

Shortly after I sold In Business magazine I was diagnosed with benign essential blepharospasm, a rare disorder that affects your nervous system and makes it practically impossible to keep your eyelids open.

Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010

Suzanne experienced such a setback when she was diagnosed with benign essential blepharospasm, a rare, incurable neurological disorder.

Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010

In fact, its cause was a rare brain condition called blepharospasm.

What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam 2010

You talk very candidly about learning to live with benign essential blepharospasm, and how you learned to love your illness.

Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010