corneal ulcer

area of epithelial tissue loss from corneal surface; associated with inflammatory cells in the cornea and anterior chamber

Class type of: keratitis, corneal disease, eye ulceration Q1628473

Facts

9 properties

Instance of: class of disease, symptom or sign^[2]
Subclass of: keratitis, corneal disease, eye ulceration, cornea symptom^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
Afflicts: cornea, human^[8]^[9]
Drug or therapy used for treatment: sulfacetamide, DL-ofloxacin, sulfisoxazole diolamine^[14]^[15]^[16]
Health specialty: ophthalmology^[13]
ICD-9-CM: 370.00, 370.0^[10]^[11]
ICPC 2 ID: F85^[7]
NCI Thesaurus ID: C50515^[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine^[17]

🏷️ Also known as

en Ulcer, Corneal en corneal ulcer en corneal ulceration en corneal ulcers ar التهاب القرنية القرحي ar القرحة القرنية ar قرحة القرنية ar قرحة قرنوية de Hornhautulcus es ulcera corneal es úlcera corneal fa زخم قرنیه fr ulcère de cornée hu szaruhártyafekély it ulcera corneale ja 角膜潰瘍 ko 각막 궤양 ms Ulser kornea nl hoornvlieszweer pl owrzodzenie rogówki

🔖 Identifiers · 20

OpenAlex ID: C2776702029, C2910275740
Image (Wikimedia Commons): CornealUlcerWithRupture.jpg ↗
Disease Ontology ID: DOID:8463
DiseasesDB: 35065
Exact match: purl.obolibrary.org, identifiers.org, purl.obolibrary.org, purl.obolibrary.org
Freebase ID: /m/02q14mp
Human Phenotype Ontology ID: HP:0012804
ICD-10-CM: H16.0, H16.00
ICD-11 ID (Foundation): 2089700977
ICD-11 ID (MMS): 9A76
JSTOR topic ID (archived): corneal-ulcer
MeSH descriptor ID: D003320

Show all 20 identifiers +8

MeSH tree code: C01.375.177, C11.204.564.225, C11.294.177
MedlinePlus ID: 001032
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2776702029
Mondo ID: MONDO_0004577
SNOMED CT ID: 91514001
Symptom Ontology ID: 0000241
UMLS CUI: C0010043
WikiProjectMed ID: Corneal ulcer

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🔗 Connections

Afflicts 2

human, cornea

Drug or therapy used for treatment 2

DL-ofloxacin, sulfacetamide

Subclass of 2

disease, keratitis

← Medical condition treated 2

DL-ofloxacin, sulfacetamide

Health specialty 1

ophthalmology

Instance of 1

symptom or sign

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

WikiProject Medicine

← Has cause 1

photophobia

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Summary

corneal ulcer is a class of disease^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ corneal ulcer — instance of (P31): symptom or sign. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ corneal ulcer — subclass of (P279): keratitis. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ corneal ulcer — subclass of (P279): corneal disease. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ corneal ulcer — subclass of (P279): eye ulceration. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ corneal ulcer — subclass of (P279): cornea symptom. Symptom Ontology. Retrieved 2020-11-22. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ corneal ulcer — ICPC 2 ID (P667): F85. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ corneal ulcer — afflicts (P689): cornea. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ corneal ulcer — afflicts (P689): human. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ corneal ulcer — ICD-9-CM (P1692): 370.00. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2019-05-15. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ corneal ulcer — ICD-9-CM (P1692): 370.0. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2019-05-15. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ corneal ulcer — NCI Thesaurus ID (P1748): C50515. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2019-05-15. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ corneal ulcer — health specialty (P1995): ophthalmology. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ corneal ulcer — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): sulfacetamide. NDF-RT. Retrieved 2016-12-13. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ corneal ulcer — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): DL-ofloxacin. NDF-RT. Retrieved 2016-12-13. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ corneal ulcer — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): sulfisoxazole diolamine. NDF-RT. Retrieved 2016-12-13. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ corneal ulcer — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Medicine. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ corneal ulcer is an instance of class of disease (Q112193867) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → keratitis, corneal disease, eye ulceration +1

Health specialty → ophthalmology

Drug or therapy used for treatment → sulfacetamide, DL-ofloxacin, sulfisoxazole diolamine

Subclass of → —

+ 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

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