sympathetic ophthalmia

noun

, Ophthalmology.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sympathetic ophthalmia¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

About one-half of those who are blinded by injuries lose the second eye by sympathetic ophthalmia.

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Panophthalmitis and sympathetic ophthalmia have both been known to follow it.

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