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Los terminos son Shirmer y Descemet.
Otto Schirmer
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Otto Schirmer (December 13, 1864 May 6, 1918) was a German ophthalmologist from Greifswald. He studied medicine at several universities including the University of Greifswald. In 1896 he attained the chair of ophthalmology at Greifswald, a position earlier held by this father, Rudolf Schirmer (1831-1896). Later he was a professor of ophthalmology at Kiel and Strasbourg, and in 1909 emigrated to New York, where he worked in several hospitals including the Herman Knapp Memorial Eye Hospital.
Schirmer provided a comprehensive description involving the pathology of sympathetic ophthalmia, a detailed study of rosacea keratitis, and extensive research concerning the physiology and anatomy of the eye's lacrimal apparatus. His work with ophthalmia and the lacrimal system were published in the Second Edition of the Graefe-Saemisch textbook of ophthalmology called Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde.
Schirmer is remembered today for the eponymous "Schirmer test", which is a method used to measure the eye's lacrimal secretion with absorbent paper.
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Descemet's membrane is the basement membrane that lies between the corneal proper substance, also called stroma, and the endothelial layer of the cornea. It is composed of a different kind of collagen than the stroma. The endothelial layer is located at the posterior of the cornea. Descemet's membrane, as the basement membrane for the endothelial layer, is secreted by the single layer of cuboidal epithelial cells that compose the endothelial layer of the cornea.
Its thickness ranges from 3 μm at birth to 8-10 μm in adults. [1]
It is also known as the Posterior limiting lamina, posterior elastic lamina, lamina elastica posterior, and membrane of Demours. It was named after French physician Jean Descemet (1732-1810).
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