angle-closure
Ophthalmology
noun
Narrowing or blockage of the iridic angle; usually attributive, especially in angle-closure glaucoma, designating a type of glaucoma in which drainage of aqueous humour is impeded by this; also called narrow-angle glaucoma.
Origin
1950s.
- recoining
- recollapse
- recollate
- recollating
- recollation
- re-collect
- recollect
- recollectable
- recollectedly
- recollectedness
- recollection
- recollective
- Recollet
- recollocate
- recolonise
- recolonization
- recolonize
- recolor
- recolour
- recombinable
- recombinant
- recombinant DNA
- recombinase
- recombination
- recombinational