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Glaucoma
| glaucomatous
| glaucometer
| glaucomys
| glaucomys sabrinus
| glaucomys volans
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Glaucoma
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Glaucoma has 1 sense
- glaucoma(n = noun.state) Array - an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness); "contrary to popular belief, glaucoma is not always caused by elevated intraocular pressure" is a kind of eye disease
has particulars: acute glaucoma, angle-closure glaucoma, closed-angle glaucoma, normal tension glaucoma, chronic glaucoma, open-angle glaucoma
CIDE DICTIONARY
Glaucoma, n. [L., fr. Gr. glay`kwma, fr. glayko`s light gray, blue gray.].
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Glaucoma, n. an eye-condition with increased pressure within the eyeball, causing gradual loss of sight.
Derivative
glaucomatous adj.
Etymology
L f. Gk glaukoma -atos, ult. f. glaukos: see GLAUCOUS
THESAURUS
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, walleyeROGET THESAURUS
Glaucoma
Greenness
N greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green.
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