trachoma

trachoma
Synonyms and related words:
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, glaucoma, 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, unenlightenment, unseeingness, uveitis, walleye

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  • Trachoma — (Ancient Greek: rough eye ) is an infectious eye disease, and the leading [ [http://gnntdc.sabin.org/what/aboutntds.html About Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)] ] cause of the world s infectious blindness. Globally, 84 million people suffer… …   Wikipedia

  • trachoma — (n.) 1690s, from Mod.L. trachoma, from Gk. trakhoma roughness, from trakhys rough …   Etymology dictionary

  • trachoma — trachomà dkt. Sir̃gti trachomà …   Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos žodyno antraštynas

  • trachoma — [trə kō′mə] n. [ModL < Gr trachōma, roughness < trachys, rough: see TRACHEA] a contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, caused by a bacterium (Chlamydia trachomatis) and characterized by granulation and eventual scar formation… …   English World dictionary

  • Trachoma — Tra*cho ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? roughness, fr. ? rough.] (Med.) a contagious granular conjunctivitis caused by the bacterium {Chlamydia trachomatis}. It is a chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva {Tra*chom a*tous}, a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Trachōma — (T. palpebrarum, Trachyma, gr.); Augenliderrauhigkeit. T. caruncularum, so v.w. Morus 2) …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Trachoma — Trachoma, griech., flechtenartiger Ausschlag an den Augenlidern …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • trachoma — trachomà sf. (2) RŽ, DŽ, NdŽ, TŽŽ med. virusinis lėtinis akių uždegimas …   Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language

  • Trachoma — A chronic inflammatory eye disease due to infection with a bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis. Trachoma results in blindness so frequently that it places a huge burden a year on world health funding ($25 billion in the year 2000). The disease …   Medical dictionary

  • trachoma — trachomatous /treuh kom euh teuhs, koh meuh /, adj. /treuh koh meuh/, n. Ophthalm. a chronic, contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, characterized by the formation of granulations and scarring and caused by the bacterium Chlamydia… …   Universalium

  • trachoma — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek trachōma, from trachys rough Date: circa 1693 a chronic contagious bacterial conjunctivitis marked by inflammatory granulations on the conjunctival surfaces, caused by a chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis), and …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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