amblyopia

amblyopia

English

Alternative forms

• amblyopy (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin amblyōpia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æmblɪˈəʊpɪə/

Noun

amblyopia (countable and uncountable, plural amblyopias)

1. dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye.
2. A disorder of visual development in which the brain partially or wholly ignores input from one or both eyes.

Related terms

• amblyope
• amblyopic

Translations

dimness or blurring of the eyesight

Catalan: ambliopia f Chinese: Mandarin: 弱視／弱视 (zh) (ruòshì) Czech: tupozrakost f Finnish: heikkonäköisyys (fi) French: amblyopie (fr) f Galician: ambliopía f German: Amblyopie (de) f, Sehschwäche (de) f, Schwachsichtigkeit f Greek: αμβλυωπία (el) f (amvlyopía) Ancient: ᾰ̓μβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ f (ambluōpíā) Hindi: मंददृष्टि f (manddŕṣṭi) Latin: amblyōpia f (New Latin) Latvian: ambliopija f Occitan: ambliopia f Persian: تنبلی چشم‎ (fa) (tanbalī-ye-čašm) Polish: ambliopia f, niedowidzenie n Portuguese: ambliopia f Russian: амблиопи́я (ru) f (ambliopíja) Spanish: ambliopía f Thai: ตามัว (dtaa-muua)

Further reading

• amblyopia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin amblyōpia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmblyopiɑ/, [ˈɑmblyˌo̞piɑ]
• Rhymes: -opiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): amb‧ly‧o‧pi‧a

Noun

amblyopia

1. (pathology, medical parlance) amblyopia

Declension

Inflection of amblyopia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		amblyopia	amblyopiat
genitive		amblyopian	amblyopioiden amblyopioitten
partitive		amblyopiaa	amblyopioita
illative		amblyopiaan	amblyopioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		amblyopia	amblyopiat
accusative	nom.	amblyopia	amblyopiat
	gen.	amblyopian
genitive		amblyopian	amblyopioiden amblyopioitten amblyopiainrare
partitive		amblyopiaa	amblyopioita
inessive		amblyopiassa	amblyopioissa
elative		amblyopiasta	amblyopioista
illative		amblyopiaan	amblyopioihin
adessive		amblyopialla	amblyopioilla
ablative		amblyopialta	amblyopioilta
allative		amblyopialle	amblyopioille
essive		amblyopiana	amblyopioina
translative		amblyopiaksi	amblyopioiksi
instructive		—	amblyopioin
abessive		amblyopiatta	amblyopioitta
comitative		—	amblyopioineen

Possessive forms of amblyopia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	amblyopiani	amblyopiamme
2nd person	amblyopiasi	amblyopianne
3rd person	amblyopiansa

Synonyms

• heikkonäköisyys

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ (ambluōpíā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /am.blyˈoː.pi.a/, [ämblʲyˈoːpiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /am.bliˈo.pi.a/, [ämbliˈɔːpiä]

Noun

amblyōpia f (genitive amblyōpiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) amblyopia
   • 1831, Dr Carolus Hanmann, De pathognomiae dignitate in morbis cognoscendis, volume II, part B, § LXXXI, page 30:

     Universim oculi nigri in amblyopiam, coerulei in cataractam magis proni sunt.

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Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amblyōpia	amblyōpiae
Genitive	amblyōpiae	amblyōpiārum
Dative	amblyōpiae	amblyōpiīs
Accusative	amblyōpiam	amblyōpiās
Ablative	amblyōpiā	amblyōpiīs
Vocative	amblyōpia	amblyōpiae

Derived terms

• amblyōpicus

Descendants

• → English: amblyopia (learned)
• → Finnish: amblyopia (learned)
• → French: amblyopie (learned)
• → Italian: ambliopia (learned)
• → Portuguese: ambliopia (learned)
• → Russian: амблиопи́я (ambliopíja) (learned)
• → Spanish: ambliopía (learned)