Glaucoma

What do we mean by glaucoma?

Any of a group of eye diseases characterized by abnormally high intraocular fluid pressure, damage to the optic disk, and gradual loss of vision. noun

In pathology, a condition of increased tension or fluid-pressure within the eyeball, with progressive diminution of clearness of vision, and an excavation of the papilla of the optic nerve, resulting (unless properly treated) in blindness. Also called glaucosis. noun

capitalized NL. (Ehrenberg). A genus of ciliate infusorians, of the group Colpodina. G. scintillans is an example. noun

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. noun

An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness. noun

An eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness) noun

An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.

Words that are spelled similarly to glaucoma:
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Words that rhyme with glaucoma:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe glaucoma:
secondary, acute, primary, chronic, congenital, simple, open, neovascular, malignant, pigmentary, infantile, inflammatory, early, induced, absolute, narrow, phacolytic, advanced, congestive, openangle, juvenile, aphakic, uncontrolled, severe, unilateral, hemorrhagic, experimental, pupillary, normal, intractable, bilateral, refractory, postoperative, closed, block, developmental, traumatic, uveitic, untreated, onset, hemolytic, pediatric, subacute, progressive, incipient, stage, standing, anti, ciliary, phacomorphic, pressure, haemorrhagic, adult, capsular, hereditary, undiagnosed, corticosteroid, rubeotic, noncongestive, complicated, called, painful, suspected, phakic, thrombotic, intermittent, familial, existing, transient, ipsilateral, precipitate, associated, ghost, exfoliative, pseudophakic, lowtension, controlled, manifest, phakolytic, uncontrollable, mild, residual, resultant, uncomplicated, melanomalytic, autosomal, vitreous, pseudoexfoliative.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective glaucoma:
surgery, patients, simplex, results, medications, hyphema, screening, medication, agent, therapy, treatment, capsulare, implants, pressure, devices, operation, detection, management, test, secondary, study, testing, consultation, family, due, symposium, definition, causes, procedures, disease, hyphaema, classification, implant, defects, following, comment, control, lysis, specialists, tetrahymena, procedure.

Consonant match to glaucoma:
glaucoma a.

Words that sound like glaucoma:
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