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Amaurosis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Total loss of vision, especially when occurring without pathological changes to the eye.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any form of blindness that is accompanied to no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the “drop serene” of Milton.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A partial or total loss of sight independent of any discoverable lesion in the eye itself: formerly and still sometimes called gutta, serena; by Milton “a drop serene,” P. L., iii. 25.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain

Word Usage

"So, too, I said I would treat a negative disease, such as amaurosis or torpidity of liver, with the negative pole, placing the positive pole on either some healthy or morbidly positive part."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

vision defect visual disorder visual defect visual impairment

Cross Reference

amaurotic family idiocy intoxication amaurosis

Variant

gutta serena drop serene

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