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glaucomas

glaucomas is the plural of glaucoma.

Meaning of glaucoma

Noun

glaucoma (countable and uncountable, plural glaucomas or glaucomata)

  1. 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.
    • Professor Rosas, in his last work on Diseases of the Eye (Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten, Wien, 1834, p. 326), distinguishes three kinds of glaucoma, viz. glaucoma of the hyaloid, glaucoma of the retina, and glaucoma of the choroid. He makes no mention of lenticular glaucoma, which is much more...1838, William Mackenzie, “Remarks on Lenticular Glaucoma”, in The London Medical Gazette; Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, volume II, London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown...

Questions about glaucomas

What is glaucomas the plural of?
Glaucomas is the plural of glaucoma.

Words near glaucomas in the dictionary

  1. glaucocystophytes
  2. glaucodot
  3. glaucolide
  4. glaucolides
  5. glaucoma
  6. glaucomas
  7. glaucomata
  8. glaucomatocyclitic
  9. glaucomatous
  10. glaucometer
  11. glaucometers

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