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| Photophobia | |
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| Specialty | Ophthalmology |
Photophobia is a medical symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light.[1] As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes,[2] though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light, such as heliophobia.[3] The term photophobia comes from Greek φῶς (phōs) 'light' and φόβος (phóbos) 'fear'.[4][5]
- ^ thefreedictionary.com/photophobia citing:
- Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. 2007
- The American Heritage Medical Dictionary Copyright 2007
- Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. 2003
- Millodot: Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, 7th edition. 2009
- ^ thefreedictionary.com/photophobia citing:
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Copyright 2008
- Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009
- McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. 2002
- ^ thefreedictionary.com/photophobia citing:
- The American Heritage Medical Dictionary Copyright 2007
- Millodot: Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, 7th edition. 2009
- ^ φῶς, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus