Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Mor·ax–Ax·en·feld bacillus Pronunciation:
'mor-äks-'äk-s&n-"feld- Function:
noun : a rod-shapedbacterium of the genus
Moraxella (
M. lacunata) that causes Morax-Axenfeld conjunctivitis
Moráax /mo-roks,/ Victor (1866–1935), Frenchophthalmologist. Morax published a general summary of ophthalmology and several papers dealing specifically with the conjunctiva and the cornea. In 1896 he isolated a bacterium of the genus
Moraxella which causes a chronic conjunctivitis.
Axáenáfeld /'äk-s&n-"felt,/ Karl Theodor Paul Polykarpos (1867–1930), German ophthalmologist.Axenfeld presented a classic account of a form of choroiditis due especially to metastasis in 1894. In 1896, independently of Morax, he isolated the bacterium of the genus
Moraxella anddescribed the chronic conjunctivitis that it causes. This conjunctivitis is now known as the Morax-Axenfeld conjunctivitis.
