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Definition of Amblyopia
1. Noun. Visual impairment without apparent organic pathology.
Derivative terms: Amblyopic
Definition of Amblyopia
1. n. Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.
Definition of Amblyopia
1. Noun. dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amblyopia
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Medical Definition of Amblyopia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amblyopia
Literary usage of Amblyopia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the diseases of the eye: For Students and General Practitioners by Charles Henry May (1909)
"amblyopia is a reduction in the acuteness of vision which cannot be relieved ...
Probably in many of the so-called congenital cases, the amblyopia is really ..."
2. Diseases of the eye: A Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"The symptoms, according to CS Myers, are sleeplessness, amblyopia, contracted
visual fields, slight deafness, and sometimes imperfect sense ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"131) reports a case of apparent ptosis with amblyopia of the right eye after an
injury followed by ... The ptosis and amblyopia were both hysterical. ..."
4. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Congenital amblyopia.—We assume this to exist in those cases in which, ...
Congenital amblyopia is usually unilateral; the affected eye is then very apt to ..."
5. Squint: Its Causes, Pathology and Treatment by Claud Alley Worth (1903)
"THE amblyopia discussed in this chapter is a partial blindness of an eye in which
the ... This amblyopia persists after accurate optical correction of any ..."
6. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1892)
"Both eyes are affected, the defect of vision being a central amblyopia, from
which recovery is rare; but yet, although the ..."
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