ophthalmic
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is called the ophthalmic (oph.).
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- adjective Of or relating to the eye; ocular.
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- Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me. — Great Expectations
- You could hear the sound of tears lapping the lower shore as they fell from the corner of the ophthalmic ocean, falling upward toward the sky, where they blurred the crescent moon. — The I Inside
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is called the ophthalmic (oph.).
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata -
The grooves are shown in the figure of the cranium, Sheet 18; the joint nerve thus compounded of V. and VII. is called the ophthalmic (oph.).
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata - "hyporhinal" or palato-nasal division) and the ophthalmic (to have been termed the "orbitonasal" (A term already applied by him in 1875 to the corresponding nerve in the Batrachia. — The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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- = French ophthalmique = Spanish oftálmico = Portuguese ophtalmico = Italian oftalmico, from Greek
ὀφθαλμικός , of or for the eyes, fromὀφθαλμός , eye: see ophthalmia.
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/ (ŏf-thălˈmĭk, ŏp-)/
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