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EYE DISEASE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any disease of the eye

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("eye disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eye disease"):

cataract (an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye)

macular edema (an eye disease caused by a swelling of the macula resulting from leakage and accumulation of fluid)

cystoid macular edema (a specific pattern of swelling in the central retina)

drusen ((plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina)

glaucoma (an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness))

keratonosus (any disease of the cornea)

macular degeneration (eye disease caused by degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea and results in blurred vision; can cause blindness)

retinopathy (a disease of the retina that can result in loss of vision)

trachoma (a chronic contagious disease caused by a bacterium and marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue)

leucoma; leukoma (eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea)

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