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OPHTHALMOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ophthalmology" is a kind of...):
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Domain member category:
slit lamp ((ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve)
ametropia ((ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia)
emmetropia ((ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina)
myopia; nearsightedness; shortsightedness ((ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred)
astigmatism; astigmia ((ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people)
hypermetropic; hyperopic (abnormal ability to focus of distant objects)
Derivation:
ophthalmologist (a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye)
