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glaucoma

glaucoma · n

an obscuration of the crystalline lens

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

glaucōma — Lewis & Short

glaucōma, ătis, n. (also glaucū-ma, ae, f.,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 70 Ritschl,

I N. cr.), = glau/kwma, an obscuration of the crystalline lens, a cataract, Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 117 al.; Prud. Ham. 90.—Comically: alicui glaucumam ob oculos obicere, qs. to throw dust in his eyes, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 70.

In the wild

Glaucomata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p5
glaucomata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p7
glaucomatum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.11.p4
glaucomata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p5
glaucomata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p7
glaucoma Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.90

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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