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sympathetic ophthalmia

noun Ophthalmology.

inflammation of one eye due to injury or disease of the other eye.

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Origin of sympathetic ophthalmia

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby sympathetic ophthalmia

sympathetic ink, sympathetic introspection, sympathetic magic, sympathetic nerve, sympathetic nervous system, sympathetic ophthalmia, sympathetic strike, sympathetic string, sympathetic trunk, sympathetic uveitis, sympathetic vibration
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Medical definitions for sympathetic ophthalmia

sympathetic ophthalmia

n.

A swelling of the uvea in an uninjured eye caused by a wound of the uvea of the other eye. It may eventually lead to bilateral blindness.
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