Definition of Glaucama
||Glau*co"ma (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
glay`kwma, fr. glayko`s light gray, blue gray.]
(Med.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution
of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media
of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with
marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (pathology) 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 retina and resultant visual field loss, which can lead to blindness.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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