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adj. - Related to or affected by an eye disease marked by increased pressure on the eye that damages sight.

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  • The typical glaucomatous field in the acute cases shows a defect most pronounced to the nasal side.
  • It affords a possible mechanism through which may be produced the recognized glaucomatous effects of certain nerve disturbances.
  • For nine years I have watched the progress of such a glaucoma in a man now aged 87, with slow development of glaucomatous cupping of the optic disc, now more than 3 D. deep.
  • It seems that both of these theories afford an explanation for many of the secondary pathological manifestations which characterize the intra-ocular tissues during a...
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