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ophthalmological

ophthalmological adjective: pertaining to ophthalmology.

Adjective

ophthalmological (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to ophthalmology.
    • But even when his mistakes and failures are to be explained in ophthalmological or optical terms, this fact does not by itself prove the disheartening general proposition that nobody’s eyes are ever any good for anything, with its tacitly implied rider that no proof-readers can really find out for...1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 97 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)

Origin of ophthalmological

From ophthalmology + -ical.

Words formed from ophthalmological

Questions about ophthalmological

What does ophthalmological mean?
Ophthalmological means pertaining to ophthalmology.
What part of speech is ophthalmological?
Ophthalmological is an adjective.

Words near ophthalmological in the dictionary

  1. ophthalmogeometry
  2. ophthalmography
  3. ophthalmol
  4. ophthalmol.
  5. ophthalmologic
  6. ophthalmological
  7. ophthalmologically
  8. ophthalmologies
  9. ophthalmologist
  10. ophthalmologists
  11. ophthalmology

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