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UK
/fˌəʊtəʊfˈəʊbiɐ/
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NOUN
- a morbid fear of light
- pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)
How To Use photophobia In A Sentence
- The clinical features of thyroid eye disease include ocular pain, photophobia, chemosis, diplopia, exophthalmos, and eye irritation.
- In addition, after one or more doses of Sumatriptan OS, the percentage of patients who were asymptomatic was significantly increased, and the percentages who experienced nausea, photophobia, or phonophobia were significantly decreased. Health News from Medical News Today
- Its typical ocular manifestations are recognised by a variety of clinical features including pain, gritty eyes, photophobia, chemosis, diplopia, and exophthalmos.
- Patients typically report photophobia, watering, foreign body sensation, grittiness, pain, or circumcorneal injection of the sclera.
- Older children may complain of a headache, photophobia (eye sensitivity to light), and a stiff neck, which is often noted by the doctor during a physical exam.
- Since a lack of pigment leaves albinos defenseless against both ultraviolet rays and light; [,] they are subject to severe photophobia and heliophobia (fear of light and the sun) from birth on.
- The eye involvement can include uveitis, episcleritis, conjunctivitis, and photophobia.
- Symptoms associated with riboflavin deficiency include, glossitis, seborrhea, angular stomatitis, cheilosis and photophobia.
- These include a large category of fears called phobias -- claustrophobia, agoraphobia, photophobia, altaphobia, phonophobia, etc. The Conquest of Fear
- A 17 year old man was referred with a 12 hour history of generalised headache, mild photophobia, and a rash on his body that was macular and blanching.