ophthalmoscope
noun
Example Sentences
The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2021 Normally, a glaucoma screening requires a doctor’s visit and the use of an ophthalmoscope to view the fundus, the internal lining of the eye and measure the health of a patient’s retina. Nathan Percy, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017 An ophthalmoscope image of diabetic retinopathy shows damage to the retina caused by diabetes. Eric Schmidt, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2017 So researchers at the University of Warwick in Coventry in the U.K. spent three years developing an ophthalmoscope that creates a high-quality digital image using fancy technology. Kristen Philipkoski, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2007 New equipment like x-ray machines, ophthalmoscopes, and cardiographs improved diagnostic and therapeutic options. Jeanne Kisacky, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017 Word History
borrowed from French, from ophthalmo- ophthalmo- + -scope -scope, after ophthalmoscopie "examination of the eye"
Note: Word probably introduced by the physician A.-C. Maressal de Marsilly in "Notice sur l'ophthalmoscope de MM. Follin et Nachet," Annales d'oculistique, tome 28 (2e semestre 1852), pp. 76-86. Marsilly applied the word to a device developed by Eugène Follin and manufactured by Jean-Alfred Nachet, a modification of the original ophthalmoscope developed by Hermann von helmholtz. Helmholtz first described his invention in a monograph, Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge (Berlin, 1851), using for the device a word Augenspiegel ("eye-mirror") that had been used earlier in German for eyeglasses. See James G. Ravin, "Sesquicentennial of the Ophthalmoscope," Archives of Ophthalmology, vol. 117, no. 12 (December 1, 1999), pp. 1634-68.
circa 1857, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
ophthalmoscope
noun