intraocular pressure

1. 1.

   pressure exerted by the fluids inside the eyeball; regulated by resistance to the outward flow of aqueous humor

   “glaucoma can result from increased intraocular pressure”

   SynonymsIOP

   Broaderpressure

Questions about intraocular pressure

What does intraocular pressure mean?

intraocular pressure means "pressure exerted by the fluids inside the eyeball; regulated by resistance to the outward flow of aqueous humor".

What is another word for intraocular pressure?

Close synonyms include IOP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intraocular pressure a common word?

intraocular pressure 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.