amaurosis
/ˌamɔːˈrəʊsɪs
/noun [mass noun] Medicine
Partial or total blindness without visible change in the eye, typically due to disease of the optic nerve, spinal cord, or brain.Leber congenital amaurosis is an inherited disease that is believed to cause up to 20 percent of all cases of childhood blindness....
- Other visual symptoms may include amaurosis fugax, diplopia and partial loss of vision.
- Another popular writer of detective stories was Ernest Bramah, creator of the blind detective Max Carrados, sufferer of amaurosis.
Derivatives
amaurotic
/ adjective ...- Before coming to America, those living in small communities in Europe occasionally suffered from amaurotic idiocy, an inherited pathology attributed to inbreeding.
- The condition differs from the other forms of amaurotic idiocy by virtue of lack of fundal changes and the presence of significant cerebellar dysfunction.
- Klenk found no increase in the total amount of gangliosides; but Cumings reported an increase in the neuraminic acid level in the cortex in adult cases of amaurotic family idiocy.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Greek amaurōsis, from amauroun 'darken', from amauros 'dim'.