Assertion: glaucoma | /r/CapableOf | damage optic nerve
Facets:
value: permanently
type: MANNER
value: gradually
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Glaucoma is a disease that damages the optic nerve, which connects your eye to your brain so you can see.
text: It damages the optic nerve, which carries information from your eyes to the visual center in your brain.
text: Glaucoma is an eye disorder that damages the optic nerve that carries information from the eye to the brain.
text: You now know that glaucoma damages the optic nerve, but you are likely wondering just how this happens.
text: Glaucoma is an eye disease that gradually damages the optic nerve.
text: Glaucoma causes pressure in the eye, damaging the optic nerve and causing irreversible loss of vision around the edge of the eye, or “tunnel vision.
text: Because it often has few or no warning signs until damage has already been done to the eye, untreated, glaucoma permanently damages the optic nerve, leading to blindness.
text: Glaucoma is caused by fluid building up in the front part of your eye, increasing pressure and damaging the optic nerve — a kind of electric cable that sends visual information from the eyeball to the brain.
text: Glaucoma is an eye disease that damages the optic nerve leading to progressive, and irreversible vision loss.
text: Unchecked, it damages the optic nerve, which enables your brain to process and see everything around you.
text: Glaucoma is an eye disease that can damage the optic nerve and result in vision loss and blindness.