AMBLYOPIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amblyopia mean? 

• AMBLYOPIA (noun)
  The noun AMBLYOPIA has 1 sense:

1. visual impairment without apparent organic pathology

  Familiarity information: AMBLYOPIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMBLYOPIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visual impairment without apparent organic pathology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("amblyopia" is a kind of...):

vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)

Derivation:

amblyopic (pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology)