glaucoma

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: glau=co=ma

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, walleye

ROGET THESAURUS

glaucoma

Greenness

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