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AMAUROSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does amaurosis mean?
• AMAUROSIS (noun)
The noun AMAUROSIS has 1 sense:
1. partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain
Familiarity information: AMAUROSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("amaurosis" is a kind of...):
vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)
Derivation:
amaurotic (pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis)
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