amaurotic, a. Med.
(æmɔːˈrɒtɪk)
[f. prec., as if ad. Gr. *ἀµαυρωτικ-ός.]
a. Affected with amaurosis.
| 1839 Hooper Med. Dict. 78 There is moreover something very characteristic in the appearance of an amaurotic eye. 1839–47 Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. III. 722/1 After a time he became amaurotic and comatose. |
b. Applied to an extreme type of hereditary imbecility, with the symptoms of amaurosis.
| 1896 B. Sachs in N.Y. Med. Jrnl. LXIII. 703/1 It will be better..to find a clinical designation, and I would propose the name amaurotic family idiocy. 1900 Pediatrics X. 9 Sachs has suggested and applied the name ‘amaurotic family idiocy’ to the condition. In view of the blindness that invariably follows, the term ‘amaurotic’ is distinctive and correct. 1937 I. H. Page Chem. of Brain iii. 93 (heading) Tay-Sachs amaurotic familial idiocy. |