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Mar 10, 2023 01:47
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Swedish term

K-skia pga her i f glas

Swedish to English Medical Medical (general) Optometry
In the medical records of an eye patient with far-sightedness and cockeyed:

K-skia pga her f glass och skelning.

Retinography due to hereditary factors for glasses and squinting?
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"skia" meaning

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David Rumsey (asker) Mar 13, 2023:
K = cornea Skia = abbrev for skiascope Hi everyone thanks for this. I figured it out. K = corean and skia is short for "skiascope", aka "retinoscopy". So this is a retinoscope of the retina and cornea based looking for hereditary factors that might lead to corrective lenses or strabisimus (being cockeyed.) Thanks for all your help!
Cynthia Coan Mar 13, 2023:
Greek? If Greek, "skia" can be used as a prefix, but what about a suffix? I was only able to find info on the former, not the latter. Could it refer to "shadow" or "dark curtain" in a visual context? See "shadow" reference below.
Christopher Schröder Mar 13, 2023:
Skia is Greek
Cynthia Coan Mar 11, 2023:
"skia" suffix puzzle A perusal of a list of Swedish suffixes yielded "ska" but not "skia." (See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Swedish_suffixes for details.) Can we be sure the "skia" ending of the "K" word is not an error?
Cynthia Coan Mar 11, 2023:
Possible explanation for "K" The "K" might stand for kerato (of or referring to the cornia), but I'm at a loss to know what the "skia" means. Possibly a suffix of some kind, but if so I have no clue as to what the root word is. Any further thoughts from the eye medicine experts?

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3 days 14 hrs
Reference:

"skia" meaning

"skia-(scia-, skio-) The Greek skia, meaning 'shadow', used as a prefix meaning 'pertaining to shade or darkness'."

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Note added at 3 days 14 hrs (2023-03-13 16:13:19 GMT)
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"A shadow or dark curtain describes a potentially urgent problem when vision is partially or totally blocked by dark or blurred shapes often beginning in the peripheral or side vision...." (https://www.aao.org/eye-health/symptoms/dark-curtain)
Reference:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/skia

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