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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about optochiasmatic arachnoiditis and death from optochiasmatic arachnoiditis.
Meaning of optochiasmatic arachnoiditis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, optochiasmatic arachnoiditis means chronic inflammation of the arachnoid membrane surrounding the optic chiasm and intracranial optic nerves, resulting in damage to these structures from fibrosis and the formation of adhesions, and typically presenting with progressive visual loss.
Death from optochiasmatic arachnoiditis
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, optochiasmatic arachnoiditis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's optochiasmatic arachnoiditis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.