This raises the pressure in the eye; the resulting stress on the optic nerve can kill nerve fibers and destroy vision.
Wet AMD can completely destroy vision in a matter of weeks or months without regular shots in the eye (up to $2,000 a month) of cancer drug Avastin or its descendant Lucentis, which dry up the leaky vessels.
In addition, drugs or toxins can destroy vision by damaging the visual nervous system.
A large growth in the back of her eye had ripped her retina, destroying her vision.
People accused the Muslim Brotherhood of hijacking the country — and destroying their vision of a cosmopolitan, tolerant Egypt.
"There's no rhyme or reason," she said, destroying my vision of an orderly universe in which higher model numbers might actually represent newer products.
A1 Integrating Russia Into Europe President Clinton urged America's European allies to invite Russia into their military and political unions or risk destroying the vision of an undivided Continent.
He has to do a lot more to get the violence under control, to persuade the Palestinian people and all of these Palestinian organizations that they are destroying the vision of a Palestinian state by violent acts".
But all this stopped about 10 years ago, when Chepserum's eyelashes started growing into her eye, causing stabbing pain and destroying her vision as they scraped at her cornea.
He was born with poor eyesight; his optic nerve was damaged during birth, robbing his left eye of sight, destroying his peripheral vision and, later in his life, leaving him legally blind.
