National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Anti-glaucoma Agent
Synonyms

Anti-glaucoma Agent

Definitions

Natural or synthetic Anti-glaucoma Agents relieve or prevent glaucoma, a condition characterized by increased intraocular pressure, excavation, and optic nerve damage. Such an agent may decrease ocular pressure and improve glaucoma as a beta-adrenergic blocker, a parasympathomimetic, an alpha-adrenergic agonist, a prostaglandin synthesis agonist, or by other mechanisms. (NCI04)

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C29705

code

C29705

DEFINITION

Natural or synthetic Anti-glaucoma Agents relieve or prevent glaucoma, a condition characterized by increased intraocular pressure, excavation, and optic nerve damage. Such an agent may decrease ocular pressure and improve glaucoma as a beta-adrenergic blocker, a parasympathomimetic, an alpha-adrenergic agonist, a prostaglandin synthesis agonist, or by other mechanisms. (NCI04)

FULL_SYN

Anti-glaucoma Agent

label

Anti-glaucoma Agent

Legacy Concept Name

Anti-glaucoma_Agent

Preferred_Name

Anti-glaucoma Agent

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C29705

Semantic_Type

Chemical Viewed Functionally

UMLS_CUI

C1874285

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C78283

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