AMAUROSIS
\ˌaməɹˈə͡ʊsɪs], \ˌaməɹˈəʊsɪs], \ˌa_m_ə_ɹ_ˈəʊ_s_ɪ_s]\
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The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Diminution, or complete loss of sight, without any perceptible alteration in the organization of the eye; generally, perhaps, owing to loss of power of the optic nerve or retina-Optic ancesthe'sia. Counter-irritants are the most successful remedial agents, although the disease is always very difficult of removal, and generally totally incurable.
By Robley Dunglison
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Blindness from disease of the optic nerve or of the retina. It may be albuminuric or due to renal disease; cerebral or due to brain-disease; congenital, when existing from birth; diabetic, when associated with diabetes; reflex, caused by reflex action of remote irritation; saburral, when occurring in an attack of acute gastritis; uremic, when due to uremia.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Blindness unaccompanied by lesions demonstrable by the ophthalmoscope. At present the term is not much used.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).