ophthalmo-
(ɒfθælməʊ)
combining form of Gr. ὀϕθαλµός eye, used in various scientific terms: the more important are entered in their alphabetical places as main words.
‖ ophˌthalmoblennoˈrrhœa Path. [mod.L.: see blennorrhœa], discharge of mucus from the eyes. ‖ ophˌthalmocarciˈnoma Path. [mod.L.: see carcinoma], cancer of the eye. ophˈthalmocele Path. [Gr. κήλη tumour, hernia], ‘protrusion or excessive prominence of the eyeball’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1892). ophˌthalmodiaˈstimeter [diastimeter], an instrument for adjusting the distance between two lenses (as in a pair of spectacles) to that between the eyes. ‖ ophthalmodynia (-əʊˈdɪnɪə) [Gr. ὀδύνη pain], pain in the eyeball; neuralgia of the frontal nerve in the orbit (Craig, 1848). ophthalˈmography [-graphy], description of the eye. ophˈthalmolith [Gr. λίθος stone], a lacrimal concretion (Syd. Soc. Lex.). ophˈthalmophore Zool. [Gr. -ϕορος bearing], a specialized portion of the head in Gastropod molluscs, which bears an eye (e.g. the ‘horn’ of a snail); an ommatophore; so ophthalˈmophorous a., eye-bearing, or pertaining to an ophthalmophore. ‖ ophthalˈmophthisis Path. [mod.L.: see phthisis], ‘wasting or shrivelling of the eyeball’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). ophˈthalmoˌplasty Surg. [Gr. πλαστός fashioned], ‘the application of an artificial eye’ (ibid.). ‖ ophthalmoˈplegia Path. [mod.L., f. Gr. πληγή stroke], ophˈthalmoplegy, ‘paralysis of one or more of the muscles of the eye’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); hence ophthalmoˈplegic a. ophˈthalmostat [Gr. στατός standing], an instrument for holding the eyeball in a fixed position for an operation. ophthalˈmotomy Anat. and Surg. [Gr. τοµή cutting], the dissection, or the excision, of the eye (Dunglison Med. Lex., 1842). ophˌthalmotoˈnometer [Gr. τόνος stretching, tension; µέτρον measure], an instrument for measuring the tension of the eyeball; so ophˌthalmotoˈnometry, the measurement of this. ophˈthalmotrope [Gr. τρόπος turning], an instrument devised to measure the muscular shortening in strabismus; also an apparatus for rendering manifest ocular movements. ophˌthalmotroˈpometer, an instrument for measuring the lateral movements of the eye.
Other compounds, given in the medical dictionaries, in which ophthalmo- ‘of’ or ‘for the eye’, ‘eye-’, is prefixed to known words, are ophˌthalmo-dynaˈmometer, ophthalmo-melaˈnosis, ophthalmo-ˈmicroscope, ophthalmo-myˈotomy, ophthalmo-noˈsology, ophthalmo-paˈralysis, ophthalmo-phleˈbotomy, ophthalmo-spasm, ophthalmo-theraˈpeutics, ophthalmo-ˈtherapy, ophthalmo-xyster.
| 1842 Dunglison Med. Lex., *Ophthalmoblennorrhœa. 1846 Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 80 The mucus in ophthalmoblennorrhœa..is of a deep yellow colour. |
| 1842 Dunglison, *Ophthalmo-carcinoma,..*Ophthalmocele. |
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., *Ophthalmodiastimeter, an instrument contrived by Landsberg, a Hanoverian optician,..for adjusting the optical axes of lenses to the axis of vision. |
| 1713 Derham Phys. Theol. (1727) 87 note, That accurate Surveyor of the Eye, Dr. Briggs, whose *Ophthalmography I have met with since penning this part of my Survey. [W. Briggs Ophthalmographia, sive Oculi, ejusque Partium descriptio anatomica, 1676.] |
| 1896 Natural Sci. VIII. 340 [G. A. Boulenger] has, too, for the first time, utilized the development or want of an *ophthalmophorous shelf to the second suborbital as a family character. |
| 1853 Dunglison Med. Lex., *Ophthalmophthisis. |
| 1842 Ibid., *Ophthalmoplegia. |
| 1848 Craig, *Ophthalmoplegy. 1875 H. Walton Dis. Eye 185 Paralysis of the orbital muscle, ophthalmoplegia. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 893 In the etiology of chronic ophthalmoplegia. |
| Ibid. VII. 380 Accompanied by *ophthalmoplegic symptoms. |
| 1857 Mayne Expos. Lex., An *ophthalmostate. |
| 1876 Catal. Sci. App. S. Kens. 552 *Ophthalmotropometer. An apparatus for determining the movements to right and left of each eye. |