gonioscopy

1. 1.

   an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma

   Broaderexamination

Other forms of gonioscopy

plural

gonioscopies·

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.

Questions about gonioscopy

What does gonioscopy mean?

gonioscopy means "an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma".

How many syllables are in gonioscopy?

gonioscopy has 5 syllables: go-ni-o-sco-py. The stress falls on "o".

Is gonioscopy a common word?

gonioscopy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.