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say it: glaw-KOH-muh
glaucoma is a noun meaning "an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness)". It carries one recorded sense.
an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness)
“contrary to popular belief, glaucoma is not always caused by elevated intraocular pressure”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glaucoma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.