ophthalmia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   inflammation of the conjunctiva or eyeball; an older general medical term for inflammatory eye disease

   The field hospital treated several patients whose ophthalmia had impaired their vision.

From Late Latin ophthalmia, from Ancient Greek ophthalmia, 'eye disease,' based on ophthalmos, 'eye.' Medieval English also had the altered form obtalmia before the spelling was restored to resemble the Greek source.

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