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Glaucoma vs Iridotasis - What's the difference?

glaucoma | iridotasis |

As nouns the difference between glaucoma and iridotasis

is that glaucoma is an eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness while iridotasis is a stretching of the iris in the treatment of glaucoma.

glaucoma

English

(wikipedia glaucoma)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology) An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.

    • Derived terms

    * glaucomatous

    iridotasis

    English

    Noun

    (iridotases)
  • (surgery) A stretching of the iris in the treatment of glaucoma.