amaurosis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin amaurōsis.
Noun
amaurosis (countable and uncountable, plural amauroses)
- Any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.
- 2008 May 22, Albert M. Maguire, “Safety and Efficacy of Gene Transfer for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 358, page 2240:
- Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a group of inherited blinding diseases with onset during childhood.
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Translations
blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye
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Synonyms
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μαύρωσῐς (amaúrōsis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /a.mau̯ˈroː.sis/, [ämäu̯ˈroːs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.mau̯ˈro.sis/, [ämäu̯ˈrɔːs̬is]
Noun
amaurōsis f (genitive amaurōsis or amaurōseōs or amaurōsios); third declension
Declension
Third declension: in the singular, Greek-type and i-stem forms; in the plural, Latin i-stem forms only.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | amaurōsis | amaurōsēs |
Genitive | amaurōsis amaurōseōs amaurōsios |
amaurōsium |
Dative | amaurōsī | amaurōsibus |
Accusative | amaurōsim amaurōsin amaurōsem1 |
amaurōsēs amaurōsīs |
Ablative | amaurōsī amaurōse1 |
amaurōsibus |
Vocative | amaurōsis amaurōsi |
amaurōsēs |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
From Scientific Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μαύρωσῐς (amaúrōsis).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
amaurosis f (plural amaurosis)
References
- ^ “amaurosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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