corneal dystrophy

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A human eye with granular corneal dystrophy, type I

Noun

corneal dystrophy (countable and uncountable, plural corneal dystrophies)

1. (pathology) A group of genetic diseases which cause overgrowth and malformation of the cornea.

Hyponyms

• central cloudy dystrophy of François
• congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy
• congenital stromal corneal dystrophy
• Dystrophia Helsinglandica
• Dystrophia Smolandiensis
• epithelial basement membrane dystrophy
• epithelial recurrent erosion dystrophy
• Fleck corneal dystrophy
• Franceschetti corneal dystrophy
• Fuchs' dystrophy
• gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy
• granular corneal dystrophy
• lattice corneal dystrophy
• Lisch epithelial corneal dystrophy
• macular corneal dystrophy
• Meesmann corneal dystrophy
• Meesmann juvenile epithelial corneal dystrophy
• posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy
• posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy
• pre-descemet corneal dystrophy
• Reis–Bücklers corneal dystrophy
• Schnyder crystalline corneal dystrophy
• stromal dystrophy
• subepithelial mucinous corneal dystrophy
• TGFB1 corneal dystrophy
• Thiel–Behnke corneal dystrophy
• Thiel–Behnke dystrophy
• X-linked endothelial corneal dystrophy