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Glaucoma  n.  (Med.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.





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"Glaucoma" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been pronounced to resemble those of glaucoma. Milton himself, in "Paradise Lost," hesitates between amaurosis ("drop serene") and cataract ("suffusion"). Nothing is said of his having been recommended to use glasses or other precautionary contrivances. Cheselden ...
— Life of John Milton • Richard Garnett
... cases treated in our sanitarium, patients who had worn glasses for years were able to discard them. Weakened eyesight and many serious so-called incurable affections of the eye, including cataract and glaucoma, have ...
— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr


Words linked to "Glaucoma" :   angle-closure glaucoma, acute glaucoma, open-angle glaucoma, chronic glaucoma, eye disease


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