sympathetic ophthalmia

noun Ophthalmology.

inflammation of one eye due to injury or disease of the other eye.

Origin of sympathetic ophthalmia

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby sympathetic ophthalmia

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Medical definitions for sympathetic ophthalmia

sympathetic ophthalmia

n.

A swelling of the uvea in an uninjured eye caused by a wound of the uvea of the other eye. It may eventually lead to bilateral blindness.