Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Total loss of vision, especially when occurring without pathological changes to the eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any form of
blindness that is accompanied to no obvious change to theeye ; often the result ofdisease of theoptic nerve
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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In 'amaurosis', the eye is beautifully clear, and, for a little while, this clearness imposes upon the casual observer; but there is a peculiar pellucid appearance about the eye -- a preternatural and unchanging brightness.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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Haas was born with a kind of degenerative blindness called Leber's congenital amaurosis.
Science Question From a Toddler: What do blind people see? Boing Boing 2009
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Susan Robinson, chief executive officer of Seattle-based Targeted Genetics Corp., which is involved in an ongoing gene-therapy trial in Britain for Leber's congenital amaurosis.
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Last fall, a team led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine reported they had successfully injected a gene via a genetically engineered vector into the retinas of 12 patients suffering from a blindness-causing genetic disease called Leber's congenital amaurosis.
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About 2,000 people in the U.S. have Leber's congenital amaurosis No. 2, caused when a child inherits a certain flawed gene from both parents.
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Although the patients had a rare form of blindness called Leber's congenital amaurosis, researchers believe the approach can ultimately be used for a broad spectrum of disorders, including retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration.
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There has been a lot of ink recently about a new study where researchers used gene therapy to restore sight to patients suffering from a rare form of congenital blindness known as Leber congenital amaurosis.
Material World: April 2008 Tracy Staedter 2008
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There has been a lot of ink recently about a new study where researchers used gene therapy to restore sight to patients suffering from a rare form of congenital blindness known as Leber congenital amaurosis.
Material World: Gene Therapy Restores Sight Eric Bland 2008
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But suppose I do what nearly all of the doctors do, who use electricity with any regard to polarity; that is, if treating acutely inflamed eyes, for example, apply the negative pole to the eyes, thinking thereby to make them more negative; or, if treating amaurosis, apply the positive electrode to the affected parts, thinking thereby to make them more positive!
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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