AMAUROSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("amaurosis" is a kind of...):

vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)

Derivation:

amaurotic (pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis)

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