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单词 ophthalmia neonatorum
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ophthalmia neonatorumn.

Brit. /ɒfˈθalmɪə ˌniːə(ʊ)neɪˈtɔːrəm/, /ɒpˈθalmɪə ˌniːə(ʊ)neɪˈtɔːrəm/, U.S. /ɑpˈθælmiə ˌnioʊˌneɪˈtɔr(ə)m/, /ɑfˈθælmiə ˌnioʊˌneɪˈtɔr(ə)m/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ophthalmia neonatorum.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin ophthalmia neonatorum (1793 or earlier: compare quot. 1793) < ophthalmia ophthalmia n. + neonatorum of the newborn, genitive plural of neonatus (see neonatal adj.).Compare:1793 G. F. Dreysseg (title) De ophthalmia neonatorum.
Medicine.
Conjunctivitis, usually purulent, occurring in infants in the first month of life, often as the result of mother-to-child transmission of organisms present in the genital tract. Frequently with distinguishing word indicating the causative organism.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of
psorophthalmia1585
psorophthalmy1656
xerophthalmia1656
ophthalmia neonatorum1835
photophobophthalmia1842
sun blight1848
sand-blight1852
sandy blight1869
blepharoconjunctivitis1890
pink-eye1897
klieg eyes1923
bung eye1933
shipyard eye1943
red-eye1952
1835 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. 173/1 Purulent ophthalmia of infants.—This is the ophthalmia neonatorum; the ‘purulent eye’ of children.
1889 Science 1 Nov. 296/1 Dr. Derby found 34 cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, 4 of trachoma, and 12 of the results of sympathetic ophthalmia.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxvi. 1002 Gonorrhœal ophthalmia neonatorum occurs, which may lead to complete blindness.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xiv. 223 Its [sc. the gonococcus'] high susceptibility to silver nitrate is the basis of the common practice of preventing ophthalmia neonatorum by placing drops of a 1 to 2% silver nitrate solution in the eyes of newborn infants.
2002 S. Afr. Med. Jrnl. 92 238 A single low dose of..ceftriaxone has emerged as the treatment of choice for gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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