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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.