Hypopyon

Hypopyon is the medical term for a collection of pus in the anterior chamber of the eye . Upon inspection of the eye, this appears as a whitish-yellow mirror.

Classification according to ICD-10
H20.0	Acute and subacute iridocyclitis
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The medieval surgeon Guy de Chauliac already described the hypopyon and its medicinal and, referring to Jesus and Alkoatim (Suleimān ibn Ḥāriṯ al-Kuwaitī), also operative therapy in detail in his Chirurgia magna .

The diseases that can lead to the development of a hypopyon include, for example:

Individual evidence

↑ Alphabetical directory for the ICD-10-WHO version 2019, volume 3. German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI), Cologne, 2019, p. 398
↑ Gundolf Keil : "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: p. 95.

[1] Alphabetical directory for the ICD-10-WHO version 2019, volume 3. German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI), Cologne, 2019, p. 398

[2] Gundolf Keil : "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: p. 95.