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am·au·ro·sis
(ăm′ô-rō′sĭs)n.
Total loss of vision, especially when occurring without pathological changes to the eye.
[Greekamaurōsis, fromamauroun,to make dim, fromamauros,dark.]
am′au·rot′ic(-rŏt′ĭk) adj.
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am·au·rot·ic
a. amaurótico-a, rel. a amaurosis.
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[3,9] The most common and obvious sign of retinoblastoma is an abnormal appearance of the retina as viewed through the pupil, the medical term for which is leukocoria, also known asamaurotic cat's eye reflex.M Other signs and symptoms include deterioration of vision, a red and irritated eye with glaucoma, and faltering growth or delayed development.
In APD the abnormal pupil is known as anamaurotic pupil.
One of the advantages of framing this matter in terms of the workings of a successful social cell is that it forestalls a discussion about the intentions of individual silent seers andamaurotic speakers, thus freeing up psychological and philosophical space for considering the structures and modes of operation of the racialized social spaces we are all participants in.
Another highlight would be "One Boricua's Baldwin," a more personal--indeed moving--account of reading James Baldwin from a boricua perspective, an essay which contains both a poignant recollection of the impact of Notes of a Native Son on Spanish Harlem in 1959 and a careful analysis of what Marquez calls Baldwin's "amaurotic provincialism"--his unwavering and ultimately debilitating belief in the exceptionality of the experience of blacks in the United States.
The subordinate MeSH Concept "Amaurotic familial idiocy" related to the MeSH Descriptor "Tay-Sachs disease" provides an illustration of these three types of queries (Figures 2 and 3).
This ambivalence perhaps recalls More's Utopian city of Amaurotum, thatamaurotic or (visually) obscure domain that, as Turner reminds us, recalls the vagueness of Penelope's vision of Athene in Homer's Odyssey.
So much so that this firstamaurotic to work in the private sector has set foot in all the GCC countries, besides visiting Jordan and Egypt to attend conference and sports-related activities.
By 1896, and still unaware of Tay's earlier reports, Sachs had named the condition "Amaurotic Family Idiocy" (though it would not be long before doctors began to refer to the disease alternatively as "Tay-Sachs").
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