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語源

Borrowed from Latin ophthalmicus, from Ancient Greek ὀφθᾰλμῐκός (ophthălmĭkós, “of or for the eyes”), from ὀφθᾰλμός (ophthălmós, “eye”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒfˈθal.mɪk/, /ɒpˈθal.mɪk/
• (General American) IPA: /ɑfˈθæl.mɪk/, /ɑpˈθæl.mɪk/
• 韻: -ælmɪk

形容詞

ophthalmic (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the eyes.

   Eyedrops are an ophthalmic solution.

   • 1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:

     The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.

   • 2008, Leah Bendavid-Val, National Geographic: The Photographs, page 15:

     In a clinic, a camera's lens probes the sensitive landscape of a human eye. McNally used a special ophthalmic camera to reveal the view a doctor would have during an eye exam.

2. Visionary, looking to the future.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 161:

     Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronise me.

   • 2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, →ISBN, page 516:

     If Jack Yeats has made this ophthalmic adjustment, and if W.B. never really was so foolish as to look things between the eyes (until the Revolution grimaced at him), have the realistic novelists of our time been wise in their insistence on ruthless close-ups?

   • 2013, David Oliver Relin, Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives, →ISBN:

     To Dechen Wangmo, and all the fiercely dedicated ophthalmic staff of Bhutan, my gratitude for your hospitality and patience with a foreigner's curiosity about your customs.

派生語

関連する語

• ophthalmo-, ophthalm-
• ophthalmology
• ophthalmologist
• ophthalmoscope

参照

• “ophthalmic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “ophthalmic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.