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Definition of glaucoma in English: glaucomanoun ɡlɔːˈkəʊməɡlɔˈkoʊmə mass nounMedicine A condition of increased pressure within the eyeball, causing gradual loss of sight. Example sentencesExamples - He also has arthritis and is in the early stages of glaucoma, another disease leading to gradual loss of sight.
- In both uveitis and acute glaucoma, patients complain of deep, aching pain with loss of vision.
- There has been a lot of debate about whether high blood pressure increases the risk of glaucoma.
- One way round the ethical obstacle was to look at patients with normal pressure glaucoma because many of these were not treated anyway.
- If the rise in pressure is slow, pain is not a feature of glaucoma until the pressure is extremely high.
Derivatives adjective Medicine Vision may still be 6/6 even at the terminal stage of glaucomatous field loss (tunnel vision) Example sentencesExamples - Both eye pressure-dependent and independent factors are responsible for this glaucomatous damage.
- Conversely, about 15 percent of patients with otherwise characteristic glaucomatous nerve damage have a consistently normal intraocular pressure.
- A positive correlation of cavernous degeneration and glaucomatous damage was found in only 4 persons.
- Experimental evidence suggests that some neuroprotective drugs reduce intraocular pressure induced glaucomatous damage.
Origin Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek glaukōma, based on glaukos 'bluish-green, bluish-grey' (because of the grey-green haze in the pupil). Rhymes aroma, carcinoma, chroma, coma, comber, diploma, Homer, lymphoma, melanoma, misnomer, Oklahoma, Omagh, roamer, Roma, romer, sarcoma, soma Definition of glaucoma in US English: glaucomanounɡlôˈkōməɡlɔˈkoʊmə Medicine A condition of increased pressure within the eyeball, causing gradual loss of sight. Example sentencesExamples - In both uveitis and acute glaucoma, patients complain of deep, aching pain with loss of vision.
- There has been a lot of debate about whether high blood pressure increases the risk of glaucoma.
- He also has arthritis and is in the early stages of glaucoma, another disease leading to gradual loss of sight.
- One way round the ethical obstacle was to look at patients with normal pressure glaucoma because many of these were not treated anyway.
- If the rise in pressure is slow, pain is not a feature of glaucoma until the pressure is extremely high.
Origin Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek glaukōma, based on glaukos ‘bluish-green, bluish-gray’ (because of the gray-green haze in the pupil). |