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Ocular

Definitions: Ocular

Ocular

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or resembling the eye; "ocular muscles"; "an ocular organ"; "ocular diseases"; "the optic (or optical) axis of the eye"; "an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light".

2. Relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation".

3. Able to be seen; "be sure of it; give me the ocular proof"- Shakespeare; "a visual presentation"; "a visual image".

Noun

1. Combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ocular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Ocular

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

Pertaining to or in relation with the eye. (references)

Health

1. of, pertaining to, or affecting the eye. 2. eyepiece. (references)

Medicine

That part of the eye-protecteur through which the wearer sees. Source: European Union. (references)

Physics

Optical system(placed near the eyes)through which a magnified image is observed ; in an optical instrument the lens or lens system to which the observer applies his eye when using the instrument. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Ocular

Synonyms: opthalmic (adj), optic (adj), optical (adj), visual (adj), eyepiece (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: eye-piece (physics).

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Crosswords: Ocular

English words defined with "ocular": abducens muscle, aniseikonia, AutopticallyCompound microscopeinferior rectus, inferior rectus musclelateral rectus, lateral rectus musclemedial rectus, medial rectus muscleocular muscle, Ocular spectrum, Oculary, opthalmic, optic, opticalrectus inferior, rectus lateralis, rectus medialis, rectus superior, retinoblastomasuperior rectus, superior rectus musclevisual. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ocular": Adenoviruses, Human, Albinism, Ocular, aniseiconiaChlamydia trachomatis, Convergence, Ocular, Corneal Neovascularization, crossed polarsDolman test, dolmans, Dolman's testelectronystagmography, Eye Manifestations, eye specialistfilar micrometer, Fixation, Ocular, Fluorophotometrygale alidade, Glaucoma, Neovascularhaemagioma, hague, Hague cataract lamp, Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicusintra-ocular hypotension, intra-ocular hypotoniales personnes les plus démuniesminers' nystagmus, mole 2.nevus, Musculoskeletal, Neural, and Ocular Physiologynaevus, Nephritis, Hereditary, Nevus of Ota, night myopia, nocturnal myopiaocular angle, ocular crisis, ocular dominance, ocular fundus, Ocular Hypertension, Ocular Hypotension, ocular migraine, Ocular Physiology, oculis, Onchocerciasis, Ocular, onchocercosisPel syndrom, Pel's crisis, Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane, Pirenzepine, polarising microscope, polarizing microscope, polarizing opticsRefraction, Ocular, Retinal DysplasiaSaccades, secondary ocular vesicle, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Syphilis, Congenitaltabetic ocular crises, tesselate, tesselated fundus, toughened mineral ocular, Toxocariasis, Toxoplasmosis, Ocular, Tuberculosis, Ocular, twilight myopiavan der Kolk method, von Graefe disease. (references)
Etymologies containing "ocular": AntlerInfraocularOctonocularPostocularUniocular. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ocular" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (finder, ocular, oculist), Romanian (eye, eye-glass, eyepiece, ocular, optic, optical), Spanish (eyeglass, ocular).

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Commercial Usage: Ocular

DomainTitle

References

  • Ocular Sciences Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Ocular Herpes (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Medical Applications of Computer Modelling : Cardiovascular and Ocular Systems (Advances in Computational Bioengineering) (reference)

  • Ocular Differential Diagnosis (reference)

  • Ocular Photodynamic Therapy (reference)

  • Ocular Therapeutics: Pharmacology and Clinical Application (reference)

  • Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Current Citation On Strabismus Amblyopia & Other Diseases Of Ocular Motility (reference)

  • Ocular Surface (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Ocular

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Note the ocular seta in front of the eye, a V-shaped ridge on the mesopleuron, and a spermatheca which has a round unpigmented basal portion.Credit: CDC.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ocular

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Kazacos KR. Visceral and ocular larva migrans. (references)

Glaucoma, glaucoma suspect, or ocular hypertension. (references)

An estimated 400,000 Americans have had some form of ocular herpes. (references)

Trade

Philippines

The establishment of import protocols is usually a lengthy process as it involves pest and pesticide risk analysis, including ocular inspection of potential source of products by BPI personnel. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ocular

"Ocular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ocular" is used about 44 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4451,500

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Ocular

CountryName
USA

Ocular Sciences Inc

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Ocular

Expressions using "ocular": Ocular abnormalities ocular angle ocular crisis ocular demonstration ocular dominance ocular fundus Ocular Hypertension Ocular Hypotension ocular migraine Ocular Motility Disorders ocular muscle Ocular Physiology ocular proof ocular spectra ocular spectrum ocular witness secondary ocular vesicle tabetic ocular crises toughened mineral ocular. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ocular": extra-ocular, intra-ocular, non-ocular, vestibulo-ocular.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ocular

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  ocular science

481

  migrane ocular

12

  ocular nutrition

251

  column dominance ocular

12

  ocular migraine

185

  ocular science inc

12

  ocular

74

  ocular prosthesis

12

  ocular rosacea

56

  ocular science contact lens

11

  ocular migraines

33

  allergy ocular

11

  ocular albinism

33

  toxoplasmosis ocular

10

  ocular herpes

28

  ocular trauma

9

  ocular melanoma

24

  health high nutrition ocular

8

  globo ocular

20

  intra lens ocular

8

  cause of ocular migraine

20

  ocular traumatismo

8

  ocular histoplasmosis

20

  ocular myasthenia

7

  migraine ocular stroke

19

  ocular vitamin

7

  harvey nutrition ocular paul

19

  ocular toxoplasmose

7

  ocular hypertension

16

  ocular disease

7

  floaters nutrition ocular

14

  intra lente ocular

6

  ocular myasthenia gravis

14

  degeneration ocular

6

  anatomia ocular

13

  ocular prosthetist

5

  ocular health

13

  ocular instrument

5

  news ocular surgery

13

  apraxia motor ocular

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ocular

Language Translations for "ocular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

syze (barnacle, eyeglass, eyeglasses, eyepiece, glass, glasses, goggles, lens, specs, spectacles), në trajtë syri, i syrit (ophthalmic, optic, orbital). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عيني ذو علاقة بالعين, ‏عياني مبني على مرئي بالعين, ‏العينية عدسة المجهر (eyepiece), ‏بصري (optic, optical, visual). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

очен (eye, optic), окуляр (eyepiece, glass), зрителен (optic, optical, visional, visionary, visual). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

视觉 (Optic, Vision, Visual). (various references)

   

Czech

  

okulár (eyepiece), oèní (ophthalmic, optic, optical), zrakový (optic, optical, visional, visual), vizuální (visual). (various references)

   

Danish

  

okular (eye-related). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

oculair (eyepiece, eye-piece). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فطری (Inborn, Indigenous, Ingrown, Innate, Natural), چشمی (Optic), وابسته به دیدچشم , بصری (Optic, Visual), باصره ای . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

okulaarinen, okulaari (eye-piece), oftalminen, silmä-, linssi (lens). (various references)

   

French

  

oculaire. (various references)

   

German

  

okular (eyepiece), unmittelbar (actual, direct, directly, immediate, immediately, instant, instantaneous, instantaneously, intuitive, right away, straight), augen- (ophthalmic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προστατευτικό γυαλί, προσοφθάλμιος φακός μιρκοσκοπίου (eyepiece, eye-piece), προσοφθάλμιος φακός (eyepiece, eye-piece), προσοφθάλμιος (eyepiece, eye-piece), προσοφθάλμιο (eyepiece, eye-piece), οφθαλμικόσ (ophthalmic), οφθαλμικός (eyepiece, eye-piece, ophthalmic). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

של העינים (ophthalmic). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szemmel látható (evident, manifest, noticeable), szemlencse (crystalline, crystalline lens, eye-glass, eyepiece), szem (bud, burgeon, eye, grain, mesh, offset, ophthalmic, optic, peeper, scale), látható (apparent, conspicuous, discernible, in evidence, to show up, visible). (various references)

   

Italian

  

oculare (eye, eyes). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Eye, eyes, Optic, snow, snowy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sooillagh (eyed, eyelike). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocularay

   

Portuguese

  

ocular (finder, oculist). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ocular (eye, eye-glass, eyepiece, optic, optical). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

глазной (euglenic, ophthalmic, optic, optical). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

okularni, okular (eyeglass, eyepiece), očni (ophthalmic, optic, optical). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ocular (eyeglass). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

okular (eyepiece). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกี่ยวกับสายตา (optic, optical, optically). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

oküler (eyepiece), kesin (absolute, accurate, assertive, categorical, certain, cheese it, clean-cut, clear-cut, conclusive, decided, decisive, declared, definite, definitive, determined, dogmatic, downright, exact, express, extreme, final, firm, flat, frozen, implicit, indisputable, indubitable, irreversible, irrevocable, mathematical, outright, peremptory, point blank, pointed, precise, pronounced, rigid, rigorous, round, safe, scientific, specific, spot-on, Square, stark, sure, sure as death, unambiguous, uncompromising, undoubted, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, utter), gözle görülür (observable, visible), göze ait, göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, drawer, eye, eyehole, glim, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orb, orbit, orbital, peeper, sight). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

очний (ophthalmic, optic, orbital), окулярний, окуляр оптичного інструмента, око (eye, oculus, optic, orb, winker), наочний (apparent, demonstrable, demonstrative, descriptive, ostensive, visual). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bằng mắt; đập vào mắt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ocular

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ocularis, oculus. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

ocularis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ocular

Derivations

Words beginning with "ocular": ocularist, ocularists, ocularly, oculars. (additional references)

Words ending with "ocular": binocular, intraocular, jocular, locular, monocular, trinocular, unilocular. (additional references)

Words containing "ocular": binocularities, binocularity, binocularly, binoculars, intraocularly, jocularities, jocularity, jocularly, monocularly, monoculars. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ocular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Auclair, Coupar, focolare, Korcula, nocular, occular, ocear, ocellar, oclar, ocler, ocula, Oculi, oculor, Okudaira, Okullu, oncular, oscular, Ossola, rotular. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ocular

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-l-o-r-u"

-1 letter: carol, claro, clour, coral.

-2 letters: arco, calo, carl, caul, coal, cola, curl, loca, lour, oral, orca.

-3 letters: arc, car, col, cor, cur, lac, lar, oar, oca, ora, orc, our, roc.

-4 letters: al, ar, la, lo, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-l-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: carolus, clamour, copular, cornual, courlan, jocular, locular, oculars, oscular.

 

+2 letters: calutron, carousal, carousel, cauldron, clamours, clangour, columnar, consular, courlans, crunodal, ocularly, opercula, oracular, outcrawl, procural, scrofula, vacuolar.

 

+3 letters: auctorial, binocular, calutrons, caroluses, carousals, carousels, carrousel, cauldrons, clamorous, clamoured, clangours, corbicula, crapulous, cursorial, dicumarol, formulaic, fumarolic, housecarl, involucra, jocularly, larcenous, molecular, monocular, nocturnal, nucleator, nucleolar, ocularist, opercular, orbicular, ossicular, outcrawls, peculator, plutocrat, portulaca, procurals, raucously, scrofulas, suctorial, truckload, ultracold, ultracool, urceolate, vocabular.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ocular


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 63 75 6C 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "ocular"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "ocular"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Ocular