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amaurosis

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CIDE DICTIONARY

amaurosisn. [Gr. , fr. dark, dim.].
     A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the “drop serene” of Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

amaurosis, n. the partial or total loss of sight, from disease of the optic nerve, retina, spinal cord, or brain.

Derivative
amaurotic adj.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk f. amauroo darken f. amauros dim

ROGET THESAURUS

amaurosis

Blindness

N blindness, cecity, excecation, amaurosis, cataract, ablepsy, ablepsia, prestriction, dim-sightedness, Braille, Braille-type, guttaserena (drop serene), noctograph, teichopsia, blind, eyeless, sightless, visionless, dark, stone-blind, sand- blind, stark-blind, undiscerning, dimsighted, blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a mole, blind as an owl, wall-eyed, blinded, blindly, blindfold, blindfolded, darkly, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon.


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