A condition of blindness or absence of the eyes or vision in one or both eyes, a medical term used in ophthalmology and clinical descriptions.
From Greek 'a-' (without) + 'opia' (vision or eye), from 'ops' (eye). The term builds on common medical prefixes used to describe various eye conditions and vision defects.
Anopias is built from the same Greek root as 'myopia' (nearsightedness) and 'utopia' (literally 'no place')—the prefix 'a-' meaning 'without' is one of the most productive in medical terminology! It can describe total blindness or the anatomical absence of functional eyes.
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