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amblyopia

NOUN
  1. visual impairment without apparent organic pathology

How To Use amblyopia In A Sentence

  • The most common eye-related ailment in children is amblyopia, which is the name applied to all conditions where an imbalance exists between the two eyes. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Amblyopia is treated by an eye specialist and an orthoptist (a specialist in childhood eye problems).
  • Newborns with monocular congenital or dense cataracts are at risk for developing deprivation amblyopia.
  • Objection: Research the curative effects of amblyopia by ophthalmic acupuncture.
  • They asked the surgeons to inform them of people with amblyopia who had lost vision in their good eye as adults.
  • A prospective UK cohort study found no difference in the prevalence of amblyopia between children who had been offered primary orthoptic screening at 3 years and children offered only surveillance by a health visitor.
  • Refractive error not associated with amblyopia principally includes myopia and hyperopia.
  • As a result of a an eye turn (strabismus) and a lazy eye, also known as amblyopia, Dr. Barry lost stereo vision as a child when her brain "turned off" the image it received from the lazy eye. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • THIS STUDY randomly assigned 88 children, 7 to 12 years old, who were wearing corrective lenses because of amblyopia caused by differing degrees of near- or farsightedness, known as anisometropia, to one of two treatment groups. Quick Study: Acupuncture helps some kids with lazy eye
  • The duration of occlusion therapy depends on the degree of amblyopia.
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