How to pronounce“glaucoma”in English
classify as severe myopia which carries a high risk for eye diseases like
glaucoma cataracts having a retinal detachment where the retina in the back of the eye peels off the back of the globe and then what's called myopic
maculopathy which is a form of kind of macular degeneration that typically occurs with later age and that's and that 1 millimeter or
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Definitions of “glaucoma”
An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.
“Professor Rosas, in his last work on Diseases of the Eye (Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten, Wien, 1834, p. 326), distinguishes three kinds of glaucoma, viz. glaucoma of the hyaloid, glaucoma of the retina, and glaucoma of the choroid. He makes no mention of lenticular glaucoma, which is much more common than any of the three which he particularizes. Indeed, vitreous, retinal, and choroidal glaucomata, are, to say the least of them, rare diseases.”