Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating or pertaining to amblyopia; afflicted with amblyopia.

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  • adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to amblyopy.

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  • adjective of, relating to, or suffering from amblyopia

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  • adjective pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology

Etymologies

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From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀμβλυωπία (ambylōpia, "dimness of sight"), from ἀμβλύς (amblys, "dull") + ὄψις (opsis, "faculty of sight")

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  • If the condition is detected early in life, and the best treatment is patching the good eye to allow the weak eye to develop normally and all the visual pathways to develop, if you don't catch it early though, and that eye becomes lazy or what we call amblyopic, then there's really no further treatment available later in life.

    CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2003 2003

  • They are amblyopic, and this is due partially to a high degree of ametropia (caused by crushing of the eyeball in the endeavor to shut out light) and from retinal exhaustion and nystagmus.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • They are amblyopic, and this is due partially to a high degree of ametropia (caused by crushing of the eyeball in the endeavor to shut out light) and from retinal exhaustion and nystagmus.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • However, while abnormalities in V1 explain some amblyopic visual problems, they fail to account for the full range of losses suffered by those with amblyopia-including motion perception.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • However, while abnormalities in V1 explain some amblyopic visual problems, they fail to account for the full range of losses suffered by those with amblyopia-including motion perception.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Dr. Cotter and colleagues enrolled children from three to seven years old, with visual acuity in their amblyopic eyes of 20 / 40 to 20 / 100.

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009

  • After adjusting for baseline acuity, the mean difference in amblyopic improvement, as measured by eye-chart lines read, was 0.3 lines -- in favor of combination therapy but not significantly (95\% CI ­-0. 2 to 0.8).

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  • Explain to interested patients that amblyopia is typically treated by reversibly disabling the better-seeing eye so as to force use of the amblyopic eye.

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  • After 18 weeks, visual acuity in the children's amblyopic eyes improved to the same degree in the two treatment arms, reported Susan Cotter, O.D., of the Jaeb Center for Health Research, and other members of the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG).

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009

  • In the combination group, the amblyopic eye was corrected to the same degree, while the sound eye had a noncorrective plano lens.

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  • Many of them have become specialized as blind or amblyopic pygmies, victims of an inescapable cycle of civilizations.

    - Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 209

    December 17, 2008