Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Dimness of vision, especially when occurring in one eye without apparent physical defect or disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Failing sight, as distinguished from amaurosis or total blindness.
- noun In pathology, dullness or obscurity of vision, without any apparent defect of the organs of sight: the first stage of amaurosis. Also
amblyopy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
dimness orblurring of theeyesight due to a fault intransmission ofsignals to the brain from an otherwise healthyeye .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun visual impairment without apparent organic pathology
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She is now taking her findings and meeting with other researchers in order to find treatments for amblyopia, which is a problem caused by poor transmission of the visual image to the brain.
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In the classic example, a condition called amblyopia (also known as lazy eye) can arise when balanced visual signals are not transmitted from each eye to the brain during a critical period for visual cortex development.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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For decades, vision specialists believed that a condition called amblyopia, or "lazy eye," must be t ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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For decades, vision specialists believed that a condition called amblyopia, or "lazy eye," must be t ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Young children may suffer from a condition called amblyopia or "lazy eye," where one eye sees better than the other.
FOXNews.com 2010
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The most common eye-related ailment in children is amblyopia, which is the name applied to all conditions where an imbalance exists between the two eyes.
SFGate: Top News Stories Erin Allday 2010
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In the classic example, a condition called amblyopia (also known as lazy eye) can arise when balanced visual signals are not transmitted from each eye to the brain during a critical period for visual cortex development.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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In the classic example, a condition called amblyopia (also known as lazy eye) can arise when balanced visual signals are not transmitted from each eye to the brain during a critical period for visual cortex development.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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As a result of a an eye turn (strabismus) and a lazy eye, also known as amblyopia, Dr. Barry lost stereo vision as a child when her brain "turned off" the image it received from the lazy eye.
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Unless there is a family history of eye problems such as amblyopia - commonly called "lazy eye" where one eye hasn't learned to see - and strabismus - a deviation where the eyes don't line up properly or appear "cross-eyed" - most children only need an exam after birth with a pediatrician and a pre-school exam to carry them through to age 10, Anderson said.
chained_bear commented on the word amblyopia
"There was also the remote but real danger of amblyopia, a strabismus-related condition in which one eye becomes so dominant that the other weakens or shuts down altogether." Seen here.
April 7, 2009