open-angle glaucoma

Questions about open-angle glaucoma

What is another word for open-angle glaucoma?

It depends which open-angle glaucoma you mean. In the sense “glaucoma caused by blockage of the canal of Schlemm; produces gradual loss of peripheral vision”, the synonyms are chronic glaucoma. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of open-angle glaucoma?

WordNet records no antonym for open-angle glaucoma. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for open-angle glaucoma come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of open-angle glaucoma

• Full entry for open-angle glaucomaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for open-angle glaucomaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.