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amblyopia

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin amblyōpia.

Pronunciation

Noun

amblyopia (countable and uncountable, plural amblyopias)

  1. Dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye.
  2. A disorder of visual development in which the brain partially or wholly ignores input from one or both eyes.

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin amblyōpia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmblyopiɑ/, [ˈɑ̝m.blyˌo̞piɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -opiɑ
  • Syllabification(key): amb‧ly‧o‧pi‧a
  • Hyphenation(key): amb‧lyo‧pia

Noun

amblyopia

  1. (pathology, medicine) amblyopia

Declension

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More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ (ămblŭōpĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

Noun

amblyōpia f (genitive amblyōpiae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) amblyopia
    • 1831, Dr Carolus Hanmann, De pathognomiae dignitate in morbis cognoscendis, volume II, part B, § LXXXI, page 30:
      Universim oculi nigri in amblyopiam, coerulei in cataractam magis proni sunt.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: amblyopia (learned)
  • Finnish: amblyopia (learned)
  • French: amblyopie (learned)
  • Italian: ambliopia (learned)
  • Portuguese: ambliopia (learned)
  • Russian: амблиопи́я (ambliopíja) (learned)
  • Spanish: ambliopía (learned)
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