amblyopia
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of amblyopia
1700–10; < New Latin < Greek amblyōpía, equivalent to amblý ( s ) dull + -ōpiā -opia
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While her two daughters were fine, Mared was shocked to find son Mabon had amblyopia - known as lazy eye - and was "more or less" blind in that eye.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025
The findings showed that participants with amblyopia as a child had 29% higher odds of developing diabetes, 25% higher odds of having hypertension and 16% higher odds of having obesity.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
It wasn’t until last fall when her eighth-grade class in Bloomington, Ind., got vision screenings that Jessica’s extreme nearsightedness and amblyopia, or lazy eye, were discovered.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2022
Around 3 percent of children have amblyopia, which develops when the brain and eyes stop communicating properly.
From The Verge • Oct. 20, 2021
Cases of congenital amblyopia with visual acuteness of 1/7 are so frequent, that I have not drawn up special statistics of them.
From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.
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