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scleromalacia

scleromalacia noun: degenerative thinning of the sclera.

Noun

scleromalacia (usually uncountable, plural scleromalacias)

  1. (usually) Degenerative thinning of the sclera.
    • Myopia has many pages devoted to it. The author regards as the primary cause of this disease an abnormal extensibility and stretching of the sclera, that there is a sort of scleromalacia, analagous to osteomalacia, which develops in some persons during the period of their growth, recovers...1913, Ophthalmoscope: A Monthly Review of Current Ophthalmology, volume 11, page 381
    • Severe scleritis additionally involves fibrinoid necrosis with consequent tissue loss seen clinically as scleral thinning (scleromalacia).2009, Venki Sundaram, Training in Ophthalmology
  2. (usually) A very rare ophthalmic manifestation seen in rheumatoid arthritis.

Forms of scleromalacia

pluralscleromalacias

Origin of scleromalacia

From sclero- + malacia.

Words formed from scleromalacia

  • scleromalacia perforans

Questions about scleromalacia

What does scleromalacia mean?
Scleromalacia means degenerative thinning of the sclera.
What part of speech is scleromalacia?
Scleromalacia is a noun.
What is the plural of scleromalacia?
The plural of scleromalacia is scleromalacias.

Words near scleromalacia in the dictionary

  1. scleroglossans
  2. scleroglucan
  3. scleroid
  4. scleroids
  5. scleroma
  6. scleromalacia
  7. scleromalacias
  8. scleromas
  9. scleromata
  10. sclerometer
  11. sclerometers

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