EYE DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eye disease mean? 

• EYE DISEASE (noun)
  The noun EYE DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. any disease of the eye

  Familiarity information: EYE DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYE DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any disease of the eye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("eye disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eye disease"):

cataract (an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye)

macular edema (an eye disease caused by a swelling of the macula resulting from leakage and accumulation of fluid)

cystoid macular edema (a specific pattern of swelling in the central retina)

drusen ((plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina)

glaucoma (an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness))

keratonosus (any disease of the cornea)

macular degeneration (eye disease caused by degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea and results in blurred vision; can cause blindness)

retinopathy (a disease of the retina that can result in loss of vision)

trachoma (a chronic contagious disease caused by a bacterium and marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue)

leucoma; leukoma (eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea)

 Context examples 

This dose of omega-3 is the highest ever tested for treating dry eye disease.

(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)

A new study shows that the complement system, part of the innate immune system, plays a protective role to slow retinal degeneration in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

A division of the National Eye Institute that has the mission to plan, develop, and conduct human population studies concerned with the cause, prevention, and treatment of eye disease and vision disorders, with emphasis on the major causes of blindness and visual impairment.

(Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, NCI Thesaurus)

The results of the DREAM study do not support use of omega-3 supplements for patients with moderate to severe dry eye disease.

(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)

Retinitis pigmentosa is an incurable and unpreventable blinding eye disease that affects 1 in 4,000 people.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

Dry eye disease occurs when the film that coats the eye no longer maintains a healthy ocular surface, which can lead to discomfort and visual impairment.

(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)

The trial provides the most reliable and generalizable evidence thus far on omega-3 supplementation for dry eye disease, said Maryann Redford, D.D.S., M.P.H., program officer for clinical research at NEI.

(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)