About The Word Glaucoma
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Glaucoma
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What's The Definition Of Glaucoma?
[n] increased pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor; damages the optic disc and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Glaucoma: Related Terms | Find terms related to Glaucoma: ablepsia | amaurosis | benightedness | blepharitis | blind side | blind spot | blindfolding | blinding | blindness | blurring the eyes | cataract | cecity | choroiditis | conjunctivitis | cross-eye | darkness | defective vision | depriving of sight | detached retina | dim-sightedness | drop serene | economic blindness | esotropia | ever-during dark | excecation | eye defect | eyelessness | gutta serena | hoodwinking | iritis | keratitis | lack of vision | making blind | niphablepsia | optic neuritis | partial blindness | pink eye | psychic blindness | reduced sight | retinoblastoma | sightless eyes | sightlessness | snow blindness | soul-blindness | spiritual blindness | stone-blindness | sty | total blindness | trachoma | unenlightenment | unseeingness | uveitis | walleye See Also | acute glaucoma | angle-closure glaucoma | chronic glaucoma | eye disease | open-angle glaucoma Glaucoma In Webster's Dictionary \Glau*co"ma\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? light gray, blue
gray.] (Med.)
Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of
transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting
media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the
eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
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