PORN

(redirected from porny)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus.

PORN

(pōrn),

Acronym for progressive outer retinal necrosis.

Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis. A rare form of necrotizing herpetic retinopathy, most common in immunocompromised patients—e.g., with AIDS; cause unknown, probably linked to varicella-zoster infection
Prognosis Poor; retinal detachment and vision loss

PORN

Progressive outer retinal necrosis Ophthalmology A rare form of necrotizing herpetic retinopathy, most common in immunocompromised Pts–eg, with AIDS; cause unknown, probably VZV Clinical Vision loss, floaters, constricted peripheral visual field; funduscopy demonstrates perivenular lucency, followed by a cracked mud appearance of the retina Prognosis Poor; retinal detachment and vision loss the norm. See Retinal detachment.

PORN

Abbreviation for progressive outer retinal necrosis.

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

and this wasn't great art it was a fairly interesting porny film.

Author, auteur: a conversation with Norman Mailer

Nothing cheap and porny about it, and the stuff ranges from voyeuristic to what look like reactions to someone saying "show me your tits" to some posed stuff, with girls-you-might-know types, and a few random non-boob shots thrown in.

Zine thing

Q I WAS browsing the internet, looking in chat rooms and so on - nothing particularly porny - when a pop-up appeared.

I WAS browsing the internet

We thought her Opium advert was cool rather than porny, you seem ore nipples in the red top tabloids, sohey, what was the fuss?

Viva!: The Viva! girls love...; Sophie Dahl and her new book,Carlton Bakery's egg and bacon butties,TK Max in Wrexham

I remember when he bought the camcorder and he said to me: 'Every guy needs a horny porny.

Pervert made sordid videos of sex games with girlfriends as he leered at the camera; BE HONEST, GIRLS, WOULD YOU GO TO BED WITH THIS MAN ...ESPECIALLY IF HE HAD A CAMCORDER HIDDEN IN THE ROOM?

One was a squeaky-clean Godsquadder, the other a shock-merchant who made porny books.