Glaucoma occurs if the aqueous humor is not removed rapidly enough or if it is made too rapidly, causing pressure to build-up. The high pressure distorts the shape of the optic nerve and destroys the nerve.
the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that over five million people around the world have lost their sight due to complications of glaucoma; about 120,000 Americans are blind as a result of glaucoma.
One of the leading causes of blindness in the US, glaucoma results from a group of eye conditions which causes optic nerve damage due to abnormally high pressure inside the eye.
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You are describing the eye disease known as glaucoma.
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Glaucoma is not contagious.
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It is nothing but glaucoma prefixed with "PRE"
glaucoma is a diseses of eyes
glaucoma makes you permanently blind.
my brother is suffering from infantile glaucoma