Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to amblyopia; afflicted with amblyopia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to amblyopy.
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- adjective of, relating to, or suffering from
amblyopia
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- adjective pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology
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Examples
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If the condition is detected early in life, and the best treatment is patching the good eye to allow the weak eye to develop normally and all the visual pathways to develop, if you don't catch it early though, and that eye becomes lazy or what we call amblyopic, then there's really no further treatment available later in life.
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They are amblyopic, and this is due partially to a high degree of ametropia (caused by crushing of the eyeball in the endeavor to shut out light) and from retinal exhaustion and nystagmus.
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They are amblyopic, and this is due partially to a high degree of ametropia (caused by crushing of the eyeball in the endeavor to shut out light) and from retinal exhaustion and nystagmus.
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However, while abnormalities in V1 explain some amblyopic visual problems, they fail to account for the full range of losses suffered by those with amblyopia-including motion perception.
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However, while abnormalities in V1 explain some amblyopic visual problems, they fail to account for the full range of losses suffered by those with amblyopia-including motion perception.
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Dr. Cotter and colleagues enrolled children from three to seven years old, with visual acuity in their amblyopic eyes of 20 / 40 to 20 / 100.
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After adjusting for baseline acuity, the mean difference in amblyopic improvement, as measured by eye-chart lines read, was 0.3 lines -- in favor of combination therapy but not significantly (95\% CI -0. 2 to 0.8).
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Explain to interested patients that amblyopia is typically treated by reversibly disabling the better-seeing eye so as to force use of the amblyopic eye.
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After 18 weeks, visual acuity in the children's amblyopic eyes improved to the same degree in the two treatment arms, reported Susan Cotter, O.D., of the Jaeb Center for Health Research, and other members of the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG).
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In the combination group, the amblyopic eye was corrected to the same degree, while the sound eye had a noncorrective plano lens.
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yarb commented on the word amblyopic
Many of them have become specialized as blind or amblyopic pygmies, victims of an inescapable cycle of civilizations.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 209
December 17, 2008