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Definition of Ophthalmology

1. Noun. The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases.

Definition of Ophthalmology

1. n. The science which treats of the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye.

Definition of Ophthalmology

1. Noun. (medicine) The anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ophthalmology

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Medical Definition of Ophthalmology

1. The area of medicine dealing with the eye. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophthalmology

Literary usage of Ophthalmology

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

1. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1922)
"*WARREN D. HORNER, BS, MD, Assistant in ophthalmology. Instruction in this department is given in the second half of the third and first half of the fourth ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"Text-book of ophthalmology. By Dr. ERNEST FUCHS, Professor of ophthalmology in the University of Vienna. Authorised Translation from the Second Enlarged and ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"... more uniform impression than when the different parts are the work of different men. This book states the facts of ophthalmology plainly, so that they ..."

4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1881)
"In attempting to review this special department of medicine, we are, of necessity, deeply indebted to the Archives of ophthalmology, edited by Dr. H. Knapp, ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In Italy the progress of ophthalmology begins with Antonio Scarpa (1747-1832; ... Arlt, and Gräfe are regarded as the founders of modern ophthalmology. ..."

6. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"In 1883 he was made professor of ophthalmology in the Médico- Chirurgical college of Philadelphia, and ophthalmologist to the Médico-Chirurgical hospital ..."

7. A List of Books on the History of Science by John Crerar Library, Aksel Gustav Salomon Josephson (1911)
"617.7 HISTORY OF ophthalmology Hirsch, August, 1817-1894. ... Q700 neo6 i^e development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870; a contribution to ..."

8. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"ophthalmology. BY WILLIAM F. HARDY, MD The War and ophthalmology. For a time the War, now happily ended, virtually preempted the field of ophthalmology. ..."

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