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Definition of Photophobia

1. Noun. A morbid fear of light.

2. Noun. Pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism).

Definition of Photophobia

1. n. A dread or intolerance of light.

Definition of Photophobia

1. Noun. (medicine) Symptom of excessive sensitivity to light and the aversion to bright light. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Photophobia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Photophobia

1. An abnormal visual intolerance of light. Origin: Gr. Phobos = fear (16 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Photophobia

photopatterning photopeak photopeaks photoperceptive photoperiod photoperiodic photoperiodism photoperiodisms photoperiods photoperturbation

photoperturbations photophase photophases photopheresis photophilic photophobia (current term) photophobias photophobic photophone photophones

photophonic photophony photophore photophores photophoresis photophoretic photophosphorylase photophosphorylation photophthalmia photophygous

Literary usage of Photophobia

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

1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Thomas Hawkes Tanner, Alfred Meadows (1879)
"photophobia.—Closure of the eyelids by spasm is seen in ch only in connection with ... photophobia is usually associated with v< or ulcers on the cornea, ..."

2. A Treatise on Surgery by Timothy Holmes (1875)
"photophobia. DISEASES OF THE EYE. immediately surrounds the cornea, and which is dissected off the sclerotic as completely as possible with forceps and ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1860)
"On Localized Galvanism as a Remedy for the photophobia of ... INTENSE photophobia constitutes the most prominent and characteristic symptom of the ..."

4. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Superficial ulceration of cornea, with intense photophobia and some throbbing pain, < afternoon and evening. inflamed; marked photophobia ; lachrymation ..."

5. A treatise on the diseases of the eye and its appendages by Richard Middlemore (1835)
"photophobia. In this form of disease there is present an extreme intolerance of light, so that on the exposure of the eye to its influence it excites the ..."

6. The Medical Times and Gazette (1874)
"Medicine omitted altogether on the 24th, and greenstone applied to lids. Case 3.—Mary S., aged 19, admitted with corneo-iritis with great photophobia. ..."

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