keratoconus

English

Etymology

From kerato- + Latin conus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ke‧ra‧to‧co‧nus

Noun

keratoconus

1. (pathology) A degenerative non-inflammatory disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal even curve.

Related terms

• keratoconic

Translations

degenerative disorder of the eye

• Albanian: keratokonus m
• Catalan: queratocon m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圓錐角膜／圆锥角膜 (yuánzhuī jiǎomó)

• Dutch: keratoconus (nl) m
• Finnish: kartiopullistuma
• French: kératocône (fr) m
• German: Keratokonus (de) m
• Hebrew: קרטוקונוס (he) (qeraṭoqonus)
• Hungarian: keratoconus
• Italian: cheratocono m
• Japanese: 円錐角膜 (えんすいかくまく, ensuikakumaku)
• Korean: 원추각막 (wonchugangmak)
• Polish: stożek rogówki m
• Portuguese: ceratocone m
• Russian: кератоконус (ru) m (keratokonus)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кератоконус m

  Roman: keratokonus m

• Spanish: queratocono m
• Swedish: keratokonus
• Tamil: கூம்புக்கருவிழி (kūmpukkaruviḻi)
• Turkish: keratokonus
• Ukrainian: кератоконус m (keratokonus)