amaurosis

Borrowed from New Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀμαύρωσις (amaúrōsis, “dimming, obscuring, amaurosis”), from ᾰ̓μαυρόω (ămauróō, “to grow dim”), from ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dim”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.mɔˈɹoʊ.səs/

amaurosis (countable and uncountable, plural amauroses)

1. Any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.
   • 2008 May 22, Albert M. Maguire, “Safety and Efficacy of Gene Transfer for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 358, page 2240:

     Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a group of inherited blinding diseases with onset during childhood.

• drop serene
• gutta serena

• amaurotic

• amaurosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μαύρωσῐς (ămaúrōsĭs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.mau̯ˈroː.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.mau̯ˈrɔː.s̬is]

amaurōsis f (genitive amaurōsis or amaurōseōs or amaurōsios); third declension

1. (New Latin) amaurosis

Third declension: in the singular, Greek-type and i-stem forms; in the plural, Latin i-stem forms only.

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• English: amaurosis
• Spanish: amaurosis

From Scientific Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μαύρωσῐς (ămaúrōsĭs).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /amauˈɾosis/ [a.mau̯ˈɾo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: a‧mau‧ro‧sis

amaurosis f (plural amaurosis)

1. (pathology) amaurosis

• “amaurosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024