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Webster 1913 Edition
Glaucoma
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Glau-co′ma
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr.
γλαύκωμα
, fr. γλαυκόσ
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Glaucoma
GLAUCO'MA
,Noun.
A disease in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes of a bluish or greenish color,and its transparency is diminished.
An opacity of the vitreous humor.
According to Sharp, the glaucoma of the Greeks is the same as the cataract; and according to St. Yves and others, it is a cataract with amaurosis.
Definition 2024
glaucoma
glaucoma
English
Noun
glaucoma (countable and uncountable, plural glaucomas)
- (pathology) An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.
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Translations
eye disease
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