| ambivert | One who falls between the two extremes of introversion and extroversion, possessing some of the tendencies of each. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ambly- | Dullness, dimness; blunt, dull, dim, dimmed. Origin: G. Amblys, blunt, dulled; faint, dim (05 Mar 2000) |
| amblyaphia | Diminution in tactile sensibility. Origin: ambly-+ G. Haphe, touch (05 Mar 2000) |
| amblygeustia | A dimunition in the sense of taste. Origin: ambly-+ G. Geusis, taste (05 Mar 2000) |
| amblygon | <geometry> An obtuse-angled figure, especially. And obtuse-angled triangle. Origin: Gr. Obtuse + angle: cf. F. Amblygone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Amblyomma | A genus of ornate, hard ticks (family Ixodidae) characterised by having eyes, festoons, and deeply imbedded ventral plates near the festoons in males. Origin: ambly-+ G. Omma, eye, vision (05 Mar 2000) |
| Amblyomma americanum | The Lone-Star tick, a species that is an important pest and vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, found primarily in the southern United States and northern Mexico; it occurs on dogs and many other hosts, including domestic animals, birds, and man; it bites man in larval, nymphal, and adult stages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Amblyomma cajennense | The Cayenne tick, a species that is an important pest in southern Texas, Central and South America, and the larger Caribbean islands, and a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico and Central and South America; all stages attack man and many species of domestic and wild animals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Amblyomma hebraeum | The South African bont tick, an important vector of heartwater in southern Africa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Amblyomma maculatum | The Gulf Coast tick, a species that is a pest of livestock in the southeastern United States. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Amblyomma variegatum | The tropical bont tick, a serious pest of domestic livestock and an important vector of heartwater in Africa and the Caribbean; it is closely associated with the development of severe clinical dermatophilosis in cattle in the Caribbean. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amblyopia | <ophthalmology> The impairment of vision without detectable organic lesion of the eye. (18 Nov 1997) |
| amblyopia ex anopsia | The suppression of the central vision in one eye when the images from the two eyes are so different that they cannot be fused into one. This may be due to: 1) faulty image formation (sensory amblyopia); 2) a large difference in refraction between the two eyes (anisometropic amblyopia); or 3) the two eyes pointing in different directions (strabismic amblyopia). Most suppression amblyopia can be reversed if appropriately treated before age 6 years. Synonym: amblyopia ex anopsia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amblyopic | <medicine> Of or pertaining to amblyopy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| amblyopy | <medicine> Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis. Origin: Gr.; blunt, dim + eye: cf. F. Amblyopie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |