NOUN | cognition | ophthalmology | the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases |
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Sounds | aa.fthahmaa'lahjhiy; aa.pthahmaa'lahjhiy | |
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Rhymes | Agee ... zoology: 128 rhymes with jhiy... |
Meaning | The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases. | |
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Category of | ametropia | (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia |
astigmatism, astigmia | (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea | |
emmetropia | (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina | |
hyperopic, hypermetropic | Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | |
myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness | (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability | |
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 | |
Broader | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
Spanish | oftalmología | |
Catalan | oftalmologia | |
Adjectives | ophthalmic | of or relating to ophthalmology |
Nouns | ophthalmologist | a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye |
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