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Definition: Amblyopia |
AmblyopiaNoun1. Visual impairment without apparent organic pathology. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A nonspecific term referring to impaired vision. Major subcategories include stimulus deprivation-induced amblyopia and toxic amblyopia. Stimulus deprivation-induced amblopia is a developmental disorder of the visual cortex. A discrepancy between visual information received by the visual cortex from each eye results in abnormal cortical development. Strabismus and refractive errors may cause this condition. Toxic amblyopia is a disorder of the optic nerve which is associated with alcoholism, tobacco smoking, and other toxins and as an adverse effect of the use of some medications. (references) |
Medicine | Reduced visual acuity not correctable by refractive means and not attributable to obvious structural or pathological ocular anomalies. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Amblyopia |
| English words defined with "amblyopia": orthoptics. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amblyopia": alcoholic amblyopia ♦ Hall test ♦ nicotine amblyopia, nicotinic amblyopia, nocturnal amblyopia ♦ tobacco amblyopia ♦ uremic amblyopia. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Perimeter Charts, Showing the Fields Both For White and For Colours, in Cases of Central Amblyopia and Lead Poisoning.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | Strabismus is a misalignment of the eyes that may result in diplopia (double vision), suppression and amblyopia (lazy eye), deficient depth perception, and an undesirable appearance. (references) | |
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| "Amblyopia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amblyopia" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amblyopia": alcoholic amblyopia ♦ nicotine amblyopia ♦ nicotinic amblyopia ♦ nocturnal amblyopia ♦ tobacco amblyopia ♦ uremic amblyopia. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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amblyopia | 135 |
adult amblyopia | 9 |
adult amblyopia treatment | 3 |
amblyopia treatment | 3 |
refractive amblyopia | 3 |
amblyopia patch | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "amblyopia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | amblyopi (weak-sightedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | amblyopie (weak-sightedness), amblyopia, amblyopie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | amblyopie (f), amblyopie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Amblyopie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμβλυωπία (caligo cornea, corneal caligo, weak-sightedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | ambliopia (weak-sightedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 약시. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amblyopiaay ambliopia (weak-sightedness). (various references) ambliopia (weak-sightedness), ambliopía. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "amblyopia": amblyopias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-l-m-o-p-y" | |
-2 letters: amiably. | |
-3 letters: aplomb, baalim, bayamo, impala, lipoma, myopia, payola. | |
-4 letters: abamp, aboil, aboma, alamo, aliya, amply, balmy, bialy, blimp, blimy, boyla, imply, labia, lamby, lamia, limba, limbo, limby, limpa, loamy, milpa, palmy, pibal, playa. | |
-5 letters: ably, alba, alma, ambo, amia, amyl, baal, bail, balm, bima, blam, blip, boil, bola, iamb, lama, lamb, lamp, lima. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-l-m-o-p-y" | |
+1 letter: amblyopias. | |
+3 letters: incomparably. | |
+4 letters: companionably, comparability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 62 6C 79 6F 70 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- -... .-.. -.--. --- .--. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100010 01101100 01111001 01101111 01110000 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m b l y o p i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0062 006C 0079 006F 0070 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357968789181827567 |
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