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glaucoma

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ɡlɔːˈkəʊmə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ɡlɔːˈkoʊmə/
  • US: /ɡlaʊˈkoʊmə/
  • cot-caught-merger: /ɡlɑˈkoʊmə/
  • CMU ARPABET: G L AO0 K OW1 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • contrary to popular belief, glaucoma is not always caused by elevated intraocular pressure

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: eye disease

Narrower terms: acute glaucoma, closed-angle glaucoma, angle-closure glaucoma, normal tension glaucoma, chronic glaucoma, open-angle glaucoma

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γλαύκωμα (glaúkōma, “an opacity of the crystalline lens”), derived from γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green”).

Across languages

Translations

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: زَرَق (zaraq) — eye disease
  • Arabic: المَاء الأَزْرَق (al-māʔ al-ʔazraq) — eye disease
  • Burmese: ရေတိမ် (retim) — eye disease
  • Catalan: glaucoma — eye disease
  • Chinese Mandarin: 青光眼 (qīngguāngyǎn) — eye disease
  • Czech: glaukom — eye disease
  • Czech: zelený zákal — eye disease
  • Danish: grøn stær — eye disease
  • Danish: glaukom — eye disease
  • Dutch: glaucoom — eye disease
  • Dutch: groene staar — eye disease
  • Finnish: glaukooma — eye disease
  • French: glaucome — eye disease
  • German: Glaukom — eye disease
  • German: grüner Star — eye disease
  • Greek: γλαύκωμα (gláfkoma) — eye disease
  • Hungarian: zöld hályog — eye disease
  • Hungarian: glaukóma — eye disease
  • Icelandic: gláka — eye disease
  • Irish: glácóma — eye disease
  • Japanese: 緑内障 (ryokunaishō) — eye disease
  • Kazakh: глаукома (glaukoma) — eye disease
  • Korean: 녹내장 (nongnaejang) — eye disease
  • Kyrgyz: глаукома (glaukoma) — eye disease
  • Latin: glaucoma — eye disease
  • Māori: papahewa — eye disease
  • Māori: mate papahewa — eye disease
  • Persian: آبسیاه (ābsiyāh) — eye disease
  • Polish: jaskra — eye disease
  • Polish: glaukoma — eye disease
  • Portuguese: glaucoma — eye disease
  • Romanian: glaucom — eye disease
  • Russian: глауко́ма (glaukóma) — eye disease
  • Spanish: glaucoma — eye disease
  • Swahili: glakoma — eye disease
  • Swedish: grön starr — eye disease
  • Swedish: glaukom — eye disease
  • Turkish: glokom — eye disease
  • Ukrainian: глауко́ма (hlaukóma) — eye disease
  • Vietnamese: cườm nước — eye disease