OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open-angle glaucoma mean? 

• OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA (noun)
  The noun OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA has 1 sense:

1. glaucoma caused by blockage of the canal of Schlemm; produces gradual loss of peripheral vision

  Familiarity information: OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Glaucoma caused by blockage of the canal of Schlemm; produces gradual loss of peripheral vision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

chronic glaucoma; open-angle glaucoma

Context example:

open-angle glaucoma is the most common type of glaucoma

Hypernyms ("open-angle glaucoma" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Brinzolamide is used to treat increased pressure in the eye caused by open-angle glaucoma.

(Brinzolamide, NCI Thesaurus)

To find genetic factors associated with primary open angle glaucoma, a research team of Harvard Medical School compared the genomes of more than 3,800 people of European ancestry who had primary open-angle glaucoma to a similar group of more than 33,000 people without it.

(Glaucoma-related genes revealed, NIH)