Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Inflammation of the retina.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inflammation of the retina.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Inflammation of the retina.

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  • noun pathology Inflammation of the retina

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  • noun inflammation of the retina

Etymologies

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retina +‎ -itis

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Examples

  • About one in 3,000 people are blind due to one of this group of hereditary diseases, called retinitis pigmentosa, and might potentially benefit from the artificial retina.

    Artificial Retina Helps Blind People See AP 2011

  • About one in 3,000 people are blind due to one of this group of hereditary diseases, called retinitis pigmentosa, and might potentially benefit from the artificial retina.

    Artificial retina helps some blind people 2011

  • About one in 3,000 people are blind due to one of this group of hereditary diseases, called retinitis pigmentosa, and might potentially benefit from the artificial retina.

    Artificial Retina Helps Blind People See AP 2011

  • About one in 3,000 people are blind due to one of this group of hereditary diseases, called retinitis pigmentosa, and might potentially benefit from the artificial retina.

    Artificial Retina Helps Blind People See AP 2011

  • She was born with a disorder called retinitis pigmentosa, a disorder that has impaired her vision since the day she was born.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom Jack Canfield 2009

  • She was born with a disorder called retinitis pigmentosa, a disorder that has impaired her vision since the day she was born.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom Jack Canfield 2009

  • The only documented harmful effect of too much vitamin E is the worsening of a rare eye problem known as retinitis pigmentosa.

    Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

  • The only documented harmful effect of too much vitamin E is the worsening of a rare eye problem known as retinitis pigmentosa.

    Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

  • There are people who come to us for treatment of pigmentary retinitis, which is not cured anywhere else in the world.

    Castro Gives Speech on 30th CDR Anniversary 1990

  • Hemeralopia (etymologically day-blindness, but by common usage meaning day-vision or night-blindness) is a symptom of a peculiar degenerative disease of the retina, called retinitis pigmentosa.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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