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Posted By: wwh amblyopia - 02/01/04 09:22 PM
From the roots list again:

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Definition: \Am`bly*o"pi*a\, Amblyopy \Am"bly*o`py\, n. [Gr. ?; ?
blunt, dim + ? eye: cf. F. amblyopie.] (Med.)
Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of
the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.




Posted By: Bingley Re: amblyopia - 02/04/04 06:06 AM
What is amaurosis, and what are the other degrees of it?

Bingley
Posted By: wwh Re: amblyopia - 02/04/04 02:58 PM
Dear Bingley: what I know about ophthalmology, you could put in your eye without discomfort. I finally found a definition of amaurosis which said only that it is blindness caused by a central lesion, with normal eyes.
I could find nothing about degrees thereof.

Posted By: doc_comfort Re: amblyopia - 07/06/04 05:41 AM
and then there's amaurosis fugax. Classically, monocular blindness which descends like a curtain over one's vision, generally an embolic ischaemic event in the retinal artery.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: amblyopia - 07/06/04 10:41 AM
and then there's amaurosis fugax. Classically, monocular blindness which descends like a curtain over one's vision, generally an embolic ischaemic event in the retinal artery, he said, thus supporting Max's claim that Aussies don't really speak English.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: amblyopia - 07/06/04 09:11 PM
Dunno, sounds clear as a bell to me. And accurate, too. I guess it's not purely an Aussie phenomenon after all!

I'll translate it for you if you want, but somehow I get the sense that that's not really what you're asking...

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