Glaucoma

//ɡlɔːˈkoʊmə//

"Glaucoma" in a Sentence (13 examples)

I had an operation for glaucoma last year.

The researchers believe that one day this technology could help people who have lost their vision due to illnesses like glaucoma or diabetes as well as those with low vision or who were born blind.

Do you have glaucoma?

Tom's eye doctor determined that he has ocular hypertension without glaucoma.

Zucchini prevents glaucoma.

She says she sees many people who have skin abrasions and infections, glaucoma and other eye infections, diarrhea, dysentery, swollen feet, asthma, and bronchitis.

Tom has glaucoma.

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.

Nearly all of the so-called noncongestive glaucomata are of Types 1, 2, and 3.

The term primary glaucoma designates that group of glaucomata, the cause of which is not yet known, in contrast to secondary glaucoma, which is due to some obvious cause.

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The development of latent glaucomata is usually slow and chronic, following the rhythm of primary glaucomata.

Unfortunately, most of the older data are of limited value because the distinction between the various forms of glaucoma was often difficult and thus unreliable and because glaucomata are diseases of advanced age.

Oh, I got the glaucoma, real bad.

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