ophthalmology

English

Etymology

From ophthalmo- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒfθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒi/, /ˌɒpθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒi/, /ˌɒfθælˈmɒləd͡ʒi/, /ˌɒpθælˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

ophthalmology (countable and uncountable, plural ophthalmologies)

1. (medicine) The anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye.
   • 1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 97:

     He will reproach himself for having been the victim of some of these liabilities, but for others, like his cataract or the bad illumination, he will express regret but not remorse. That is, some of the explanations that he will give for some of his mistakes and failures will be of the same sort as the explanations he would give for his mistakes and failures in counting or multiplying, but some will be of quite different sorts, like the explanations that he couches in the terms of elementary ophthalmology or optics.

Related terms

• neuro-ophthalmology
• neuro-ophthalmologist
• ophthalmological
• ophthalmologist

Translations

eye medicine

• Albanian: oftalmologjía f
• Arabic: طِبّ اَلْعُيُون m (ṭibb al-ʕuyūn)
• Armenian: ակնաբուժություն (hy) (aknabužutʻyun)
• Asturian: oftalmoloxía f
• Azerbaijani: oftalmologiya
• Basque: oftalmologia (eu)
• Belarusian: афтальмалогія f (aftalʹmalóhija)
• Bengali: চক্ষুচিকিৎসাবিজ্ঞান (cokkhucikitśabiggên)
• Bulgarian: офталмология f (oftalmologija)
• Catalan: oftalmologia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 眼科 (ngaan⁵ fo¹)

  Hakka: 眼科 (ngién-khô)

  Hokkien: 眼科 (zh-min-nan) (gán-kho / gán-kher)

  Mandarin: 眼科 (zh) (yǎnkē), 眼科學／眼科学 (zh) (yǎnkēxué)

• Czech: oftalmologie (cs) f
• Danish: oftalmologi c
• Dutch: oogheelkunde (nl) f, oftalmologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: oftalmologio, okulkuracado
• Finnish: silmätautioppi, oftalmologia (fi)
• French: ophtalmologie (fr)
• Galician: oftalmoloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: ოფთალმოლოგია (optalmologia)
• German: Augenheilkunde (de) f, Ophthalmologie (de) f
• Hebrew: אופתלמולוגיה (he) f (optolamologya)
• Hindi: नेत्रविज्ञान m (netravijñān)
• Hungarian: szemészet (hu)
• Icelandic: augnlæknisfræði (is) f
• Ido: oftalmologio (io)
• Indonesian: oftalmologi (id)
• Irish: oftailmeolaíocht f
• Italian: oftalmologia (it) f
• Japanese: 眼科 (ja) (がんか, ganka), 眼科学 (がんかがく, gankagaku)
• Kannada: ನೇತ್ರಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (nētraśāstra), ನೇತ್ರವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (kn) (nētravijñāna)
• Korean: 안과(眼科) (ko) (an'gwa), 안과학(眼科學) (an'gwahak)
• Kyrgyz: офтальмология (oftalmologiya)
• Latin: ars curae oculariae f, ars curae ocularis f, medicina ocularia, medicina ocularis f, medicina ocularia f, medicina ocularis f
• Latvian: oftalmoloģija f
• Lithuanian: oftalmologija f
• Macedonian: офталмологија f (oftalmologija)
• Malay: oftalmologi (ms)
• Malayalam: നേത്രവിജ്ഞാനം (nētravijñānaṁ)
• Marathi: नेत्रशल्यचिकित्सा (netraśalyacikitsā)
• Mingrelian: ოფთალმოლოგია (optalmologia)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oftalmologi m

  Nynorsk: oftalmologi m

• Pali: नेत्रशल्यचिकित्सा (netraśalyacikitsā)
• Persian: چشم‌پزشکی (češm-pezeški)
• Polish: oftalmologia (pl) f, okulistyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: oftalmologia f
• Quechua: ñawi hampikamayuq
• Romanian: oftalmologie (ro) f
• Russian: офтальмоло́гия (ru) f (oftalʹmológija)
• Sanskrit: नेत्रशल्यचिकित्सा (netraśalyacikitsā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: офталмологија f

  Roman: oftalmologija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: අක්‍ෂි වෛද්‍යවේදය (akṣi waidyawēdaya)
• Slovak: oftalmológia f
• Slovene: oftalmologíja f, okulístika f
• Spanish: oftalmología (es) f
• Swedish: oftalmologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: optalmolohiya
• Tajik: офталмология (oftalmologiya)
• Tatar: офтальмология (oftal’moloğiyä)
• Telugu: నేత్ర వైద్యము (nētra vaidyamu)
• Thai: จักษุวิทยา (th) (jàk-sù wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: gözbilim (tr), göz bilimi
• Ukrainian: офтальмоло́гія f (oftalʹmolóhija)
• Uzbek: oftalmologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: khoa mắt, nhãn khoa (vi)
• Waray-Waray: optalmolohiya
• West Frisian: eachhielkunde
• Yiddish: אָפֿטאַלמאָלאָגיע (oftalmologye)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of ophthalmology