PHOTOPHOBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photophobia mean? 

• PHOTOPHOBIA (noun)
  The noun PHOTOPHOBIA has 2 senses:

1. a morbid fear of light

2. pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)

  Familiarity information: PHOTOPHOBIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOPHOBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morbid fear of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

photalgia; photophobia

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

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

 Context examples 

Individuals may have vision disturbances and photophobia.

(Oculocutaneous Albinism, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include headache, fever, vomiting, neck stiffness, photophobia, confusion, and seizures.

(Infectious Meningitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include pain and redness in the eye, photophobia and eye watering.

(Corneal Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

With restricted reference to skin tissue, it does not include photosensitivity of the eye to light, as in photophobia or photosensitive epilepsy.

(Photodermatitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It presents with pain and burning sensation in the eyes and photophobia.

(Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by neck stiffness, headache, and photophobia resulting from irritation of the cerebral meninges.

(Meningismus, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Symptoms include radiating pain, photophobia, lacrimation, and interference with vision.

(Iridocyclitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The symptoms of neck stiffness, headache, and photophobia resulting from meningeal irritation.

(Meningismus, NCI Thesaurus)

The Chlamydia cause respiratory infection manifested with fever, malaise, cough, dyspnea, sore throat, photophobia and headaches.

(Chlamydia Psittaci Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Ocular pain which may be very intense, accompanied by corneal epithelium damage, conjunctival injection, lacrimation, blepharospasm, photophobia and hazy vision following corneal edema caused by overwear of contact lenses, principally the PMMA type.

(Contact Lens Overwear Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)