AMBLYOPIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visual impairment without apparent organic pathology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

Derivation:

amblyopic (pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology)

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