| 单词 | ophthalmia |
| 释义 | ‖ ophthalmia Path.|ɒfˈθælmɪə|
Forms: 4–6 obtalmia, 5 obtolmia, 6 op-, ophtalmia, 6– ophthalmia. See also the anglicized form ophthalmy.
[late L. (Boethius), a. Gr. ὀϕθαλµία f. ὀϕθαλµός eye.]
Inflammation of the eye, esp. of the conjunctiva of the eye; ophthalmitis.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xvi. (1495) 235 A rewme rennyth to the eyen, and therof comyth an euyll that highte Obtalmia, a shrewde blerinesse and ache. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 241 Oþere maner sijknes of þe iȝe,..as obtolmia & blere iȝed. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Formul. Y j b, Thyrdly is admynystred colirium de thutia..in the ende of optalmia. 1562W. Bullein Bk. Simples 2 Ophthalmia..is a sicknes of the eye. 1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 155 Ophthalmia..is an inflammation of the whole eye, but chiefly of the membraine called conjunctiue. 1794E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 30 Light is as intolerable in this kind of ophthalmia, as pressure is to the finger in the paronychia. 1821Shelley Lett. Pr. Wks. 1880 IV. 197, I have had a severe ophthalmia. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 225 Hannibal, himself tortured with ophthalmia, rode on the one elephant which had survived the last year's campaign.
b. fig. Disordered mental vision.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. vii, Mechanical Profit-and-Loss Philosophies, with the sick ophthalmia and hallucination they had brought on. 1883E. J. Moeran in Time No. 53. 215 A temporary attack of mental ophthalmia. |
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