Glaucoma

[glɔː'kəʊmə] or [glaʊ'komə]

解釋/意思:

(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'.

校對:斯坦顿--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

吉恩編輯

解釋/意思:

n. an insidious disease of the eye marked by increased tension within the eyeball growing dimness of vision and an excavation of the papilla of the optic nerve—also Glaucō′sis.—adj. Glaucom′atous.

錄入:玛丽