Definition of Amaurotic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis.

Partainyms: Amaurosis
Derivative terms: Amaurosis

Definition of Amaurotic

1. a. Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Definition of Amaurotic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to amaurosis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amaurotic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Amaurotic

1. Relating to or suffering from amaurosis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amaurotic

amatorially
amatorian
amatorily
amatorious
amatoxin
amatoxins
amatuer
amatungulu
amature
amatuximab
amauroses
amaurosis
amaurosis congenita of Leber
amaurosis fugax
amaurotic (current term)
amaurotic cat's eye
amaurotic mydriasis
amaurotic nystagmus
amaurotic pupil
amauti
amautis
amaxophobia
amay
amazake
amaze
amazed
amazedly
amazedness
amazeful

Literary usage of Amaurotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"amaurotic Family Idiocy Characteristic Features.—amaurotic family idiocy ... Conditions to Be Differentiated from amaurotic Family Idiocy The following ..."

2. The London Medical Gazette (1842)
"12, was admitted as an out-patient suffering from an intermittent amaurotic affection, which had existed a fortnight, on the 23d of September, 1841. ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"ON amaurotic FAMILY IDIOCY. A DISEASE CHIEFLY OF THE GRAY MATTER OF THE CENTRAL ... The clinical symptoms of amaurotic family idiocy have been described ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"ON amaurotic FAMILY IDIOCY. A DISEASE CHIEFLY OF THE GRAY MATTER OF THE CENTRAL ... The clinical symptoms of amaurotic family idiocy have been described ..."

5. Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi by Edward Leroy Oatman (1920)
"amaurotic FAMILY IDIOCY. Hirschberg remarked that his case presented some symptoms not unlike amaurotic idiocy, but differed in other and essential points. ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"amaurotic Family Idiocy (Sacks' Disease) Symptoms.—B. Sachs, in 1903, called attention to a form of spastic paralysis of distinct family type, ..."

7. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"IN amaurotic affections, various visual sensations, though not in themselves unnatural, are apt to be excited unnaturally. As such are important as symptoms ..."

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