mooneye
- noun
- Archaic
:
ceguera lunar
- The veterinarian diagnosed the horse with mooneye after noticing signs of inflammation in its eye.
Examples
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If not treated promptly, mooneye can lead to permanent blindness in affected horses.
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Due to an outbreak of mooneye, several horses at the ranch had to be treated for their eye conditions.
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Most of these are animals, plants, rocks, or diseases: moon blindness, mooneye, moonfish, moonflower, moonlet, moonquake, moonseed, moon shell.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
3
7.9
Swelling of the back part of the eye that often causes vision problems
Repeated inflammation in a horse's eye that can cause blindness
Swelling and redness of the middle layer of the eye that causes pain or blurred vision
Swelling and pain in the colored part of the eye and nearby tissue that makes vision worse
Swelling and pain in the colored part of the eye that makes it red and may affect vision
Swelling and redness of the front of the eye affecting cornea and iris
A condition that causes severe redness, swelling, and pain in the eye
Swelling at the back of the eye that can cause vision problems
How Severe
70
3.1
- Archaic
- Specialized
- Specialized
4
5.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mooneye comes from an old belief that the moon could cause a horse's sore eye, so the name is literally moon + eye meaning 'moon' and 'eye'. That's why mooneye means a sore or swelling in a horse's eye that keeps coming back and can sometimes cause blindness.