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Glaucoma [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A fault in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes gray, but without injury to the sight.

2. A disease in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes of a bluish or greenish color, and its transparency is diminished.

3. An opacity of the vitreous humor.

4. According to Sharp, the glaucoma of the Greeks is the same as the cataract; and according to St. Yves and others, it is a cataract with amaurosis.

Glaucoma [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

Glaucomatous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the nature of glaucoma.