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Webster 1913 Edition


Glaucoma


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.
[Gr.] A fault in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes gray, but without injury to the sight.
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)

  1. (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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Italian

Noun

glaucoma m (plural glaucomi)

  1. (pathology) glaucoma

Portuguese

Noun

glaucoma m (plural glaucomas)

  1. (pathology) glaucoma (eye disease)

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Spanish

Noun

glaucoma m (plural glaucomas)

  1. glaucoma