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Definition of Acute glaucoma

1. Noun. Glaucoma in which the iris blocks the outflow of aqueous humor. "Closed-angle glaucoma can cause a rapid buildup of high intraocular pressure that results in permanent visual damage in a couple of days"

Medical Definition of Acute glaucoma

1. A sudden blockage of the normal fluid circulation within the eyeball resulting in increased intraocular pressure. Increased pressure within the eyeball can cause damage to the optic nerve and blindness. Symptom include severe eye or facial pain, nausea, vomiting, decreased vision, blurred vision and seeing halos around objects. The eye appears red with a steamy cornea and a fixed (nonreactive) dilated pupil. Treatment is emergent with medications to lower the pressure within the eye. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acute Glaucoma

Literary usage of Acute glaucoma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"The symptoms of acute glaucoma have been often and well described, but the ophthalmoscopic signs are less ... Although in acute glaucoma the urgent symptoms ..."

2. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1900)
"In using the term inflammatory here it is not to be supposed that acute glaucoma is an inflammation in the strict pathological sense of the term, or, if so, ..."

3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1872)
"UNRECOGNISED acute glaucoma—A FERTILE SOURCE OF BLINDNESS. ... Of sixty-seven cases of acute glaucoma of which, during the last decade, I have noted details ..."

4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"acute glaucoma with amaurosis. This is identical with acute arthritic posterior internal ophthalmia above described (p. 154, et seq.). CATS EYE. ..."

5. Selected Monographs: Kussmaul and Tenner on Epileptiform Convulsions from by Albrecht von Graefe, Adolf Kussmaul, Adolf Tenner, Albrecht Wagner (1859)
"acute glaucoma in an eye previously affected with cataract. Iridectomy on the ninth day. ... Iridectomy in the later period of acute glaucoma. ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"acute glaucoma with amaurosis. This is identical with acute arthritic posterior internal ophthalmia above described (p. 156 et seq.). ..."

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