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amaurosis

US/ˌæ.mɔˈɹoʊ.səs/

amaurosis noun: any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.

Noun

amaurosis (countable and uncountable, plural amauroses)

  1. Any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.
    • Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a group of inherited blinding diseases with onset during childhood.2008 May 22, Albert M. Maguire, “Safety and Efficacy of Gene Transfer for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 358, page 2240

amaurosis meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic

amaurosis in Tamil

நரம்புசால் குருட்டுத்தன்மை, திமிரம்

amaurosis in Urdu

blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye
بطلان بصر butlān-e-basr, ذہاب بصر zihāb-e-basr, فقد النظر faqd-ul-nazar, کمنہ kumna

amaurosis in Kannada

ನೋಟಗತ್ತಲು

amaurosis in Arabic

blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye
كُمْنَة kumna

Synonyms of amaurosis

Forms of amaurosis

pluralamauroses

Origin of amaurosis

Borrowed from New Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀμαύρωσις (amaúrōsis, “dimming, obscuring, amaurosis”), from ᾰ̓μαυρόω (ămauróō, “to grow dim”), from ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dim”).

Words formed from amaurosis

Questions about amaurosis

What does amaurosis mean?
Amaurosis means any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.
What is amaurosis in Tamil?
Amaurosis in Tamil is நரம்புசால் குருட்டுத்தன்மை, திமிரம். See Amaurosis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is amaurosis?
Amaurosis is a noun.
How do you pronounce amaurosis?
Amaurosis is pronounced /ˌæ.mɔˈɹoʊ.səs/ (US).
What is the plural of amaurosis?
The plural of amaurosis is amauroses.

Words near amaurosis in the dictionary

  1. amaurobiids
  2. amaurobioid
  3. amaurobioids
  4. amaurophilia
  5. amauroses
  6. amaurosis
  7. amaurotic
  8. amaut
  9. amauti
  10. amautiit
  11. amautik

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amaurosis (page history and authors); amaurosis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amaurosis (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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