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microphthalmia

eye disease where one or both eyeballs are abnormally small
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microphthalmia

Summary

microphthalmia is a rare disease[1]. microphthalmia draws 469 Wikipedia views per month (rare_disease category, ranking #137 of 627).[2]

Key Facts

  • microphthalmia's instance of is recorded as rare disease[3].
  • microphthalmia's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • microphthalmia is a type of eye disease[5].
  • microphthalmia is a type of eye abnormalities[6].
  • microphthalmia's Commons category is recorded as Microphthalmia[7].
  • microphthalmia's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • microphthalmia's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 743.11[9].
  • microphthalmia's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 743.10[10].
  • microphthalmia's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 743.1[11].
  • microphthalmia's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C98989[12].
  • microphthalmia's health specialty is recorded as medical genetics[13].
  • microphthalmia's genetic association is recorded as HCCS[14].
  • microphthalmia's genetic association is recorded as BMP4[15].
  • microphthalmia's genetic association is recorded as TMEM98[16].
  • microphthalmia's genetic association is recorded as SOX2[17].
  • microphthalmia's genetic association is recorded as OTX2[18].
  • microphthalmia's genetic association is recorded as MFRP[19].
  • microphthalmia's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10629[20].
  • microphthalmia's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10629[21].
  • microphthalmia's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000568[22].
  • microphthalmia's exact match is recorded as http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_35612[23].
  • microphthalmia's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[24].

Why It Matters

microphthalmia draws 469 Wikipedia views per month (rare_disease category, ranking #137 of 627).[2] microphthalmia has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] microphthalmia is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Microphthalmia with linear skin defects (MLS) syndrome: clinical, cytogenetic, and molecular characterization of 11 cases. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Mutations in BMP4 cause eye, brain, and digit developmental anomalies: overlap between the BMP4 and hedgehog signaling pathways. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Mutation in TMEM98 in a large white kindred with autosomal dominant nanophthalmos linked to 17p12-q12.. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Mutations in SOX2 cause anophthalmia. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Heterozygous mutations of OTX2 cause severe ocular malformations. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Extreme hyperopia is the result of null mutations in MFRP, which encodes a Frizzled-related protein. Retrieved . platform.opentargets.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    Described by source → Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Health specialty → medical genetics
    Subclass of → eye disease, eye abnormalities
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39953|batch #39953]]: deprecate redundant disease superclasses (2)"
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