Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) Non-inflammatory disease of the retina.
Wikipedia
Retinopathy is persistent or acute damage to the retina of the eye. Ongoing inflammation and vascular remodeling may occur over periods of time where the patient is not fully aware of the extent of the disease. Frequently, retinopathy is an ocular manifestation of systemic disease as seen in diabetes or hypertension. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-aged people.
Usage examples of "retinopathy".
Solar retinopathy is the fancy name for damage to the back of the eye caused when radiation from the sun is concentrated by the lens onto the retina.
Solar retinopathy has been studied in medical literature, and surprisingly the damage it causes is not as severe as previously thought.
It could be lesions, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or even cataracts.
In 1995, Jessup developed diabetic retinopathy and ultimately went through eight surgeries on his right eye and five on his left.
Mikhail Suslov had diabetic retinopathy of the eyes—he was also a high myope, very nearsighted—and they went over to fix it, and to teach some Russian docs how to do the procedure.