keratoconus

keratoconus

English

Etymology

From kerato- +‎ conus, from Latin cone.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: kera‧to‧conus

Noun

keratoconus

1. (pathology) A degenerative non-inflammatory disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal even curve

Related terms

• keratoconic

Translations

A degenerative disorder of the eye

Albanian: keratokonus m Catalan: queratocon m Dutch: keratoconus (nl) m Finnish: kartiopullistuma French: kératocône (fr) m German: Keratokonus (de) m Hebrew: קרטוקונוס‎ (he) (qeraṭoqonus) Hungarian: keratoconus Italian: cheratocono m Japanese: 円錐角膜 (えんすいかくまく, ensuikakumaku)

Korean: 원추각막 (wŏnchugakmak) Polish: stożek rogówki m Portuguese: ceratocone m Russian: кератоконус (ru) m (keratokonus) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кератоконус m Roman: keratokonus m Spanish: queratocono m Swedish: keratokonus Ukrainian: кератоконус m (keratokonus)