A 38 year old male presents following a high

velocity injury to his left eye. In your workup, you put fluorescein dye in his

eye, and look at it under the cobalt blue light at the slit lamp. There is a small

point on his cornea where you can see what looks like a waterfall flowing

through the fluorescein. This is known as Seidel’s sign, and in this clinical

situation it is indicative of what?