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amblyopia

/æmblɪˈəʊpɪə/

amblyopia noun: dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye.

Noun

amblyopia (countable and uncountable, plural amblyopias)

  1. Dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye.
  2. A disorder of visual development in which the brain partially or wholly ignores input from one or both eyes.

amblyopia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

amblyopia in Hindi

dimness or blurring of the eyesight
मंददृष्टि manddŕṣṭi

amblyopia in Tamil

பார்வைத் தெளிவின்மை, பார்வை மங்கல், மங்கு பார்வை

amblyopia in Urdu

کَم بَصری, کَم نَظری, ضَعفِ بَصَر, بینائی کی کَمزوری

amblyopia in Kannada

ಮಂಕುನೋಟ
More languagesFewer languages
amblyopia in Persian
تنبلی چشم tanbali-ye čašm
amblyopia in Thai
ตามัว dtaa-muua

Forms of amblyopia

pluralamblyopias
alternative form (dated)amblyopy

Origin of amblyopia

Borrowed from New Latin amblyōpia. By surface analysis, ambly- + -ope + -ia.

Questions about amblyopia

What does amblyopia mean?
Amblyopia means dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye.
What is amblyopia in Hindi?
Amblyopia in Hindi is मंददृष्टि (manddŕṣṭi). See Amblyopia meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is amblyopia?
Amblyopia is a noun.
How do you pronounce amblyopia?
Amblyopia is pronounced /æmblɪˈəʊpɪə/.
What is the plural of amblyopia?
The plural of amblyopia is amblyopias.

Words near amblyopia in the dictionary

  1. amblygonite
  2. amblygonites
  3. amblyogenic
  4. amblyope
  5. amblyopes
  6. amblyopia
  7. amblyopias
  8. amblyopic
  9. amblyopinine
  10. amblyopinines
  11. amblyoponine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amblyopia (page history and authors); amblyopia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amblyopia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amblyopia (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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