'Glaucoma' definitions:
Definition of 'glaucoma'
(from WordNet)
noun
An eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness); "contrary to popular belief, glaucoma is not always caused by elevated intraocular pressure"
Definition of 'Glaucoma'
From: GCIDE
- Glaucoma \Glau*co"ma\, n. [L., fr. Gr. glay`kwma, fr. glayko`s light gray, blue gray.] (Med.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'glaucoma'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablepsia,
- amaurosis,
- benightedness,
- blepharitis,
- blind side,
- blind spot,
- blindfolding,
- blinding,
- blindness,
- blurring the eyes,
- cataract,
- cecity,
- choroiditis,
- conjunctivitis,
- cross-eye,
- darkness,
- defective vision,
- depriving of sight,
- detached retina,
- dim-sightedness,
- drop serene,
- economic blindness,
- esotropia,
- ever-during dark,
- excecation,
- eye defect,
- eyelessness,
- gutta serena,
- hoodwinking,
- iritis,
- keratitis,
- lack of vision,
- making blind,
- niphablepsia,
- optic neuritis,
- partial blindness,
- pink eye,
- psychic blindness,
- reduced sight,
- retinoblastoma,
- sightless eyes,
- sightlessness,
- snow blindness,
- soul-blindness,
- spiritual blindness,
- stone-blindness,
- sty,
- total blindness,
- trachoma,
- unenlightenment,
- unseeingness,
- uveitis,
- walleye