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scleromalacias

scleromalacias is the plural of scleromalacia.

Meaning of scleromalacia

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
  2. (usually) A very rare ophthalmic manifestation seen in rheumatoid arthritis.

Questions about scleromalacias

What is scleromalacias the plural of?
Scleromalacias is the plural of scleromalacia.

Words near scleromalacias in the dictionary

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

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