Thinning in the 'Quiet' Eye When a patient presents with some thinning in his corneal periphery, one of the first questions physicians ask is whether or not the eye is inflamed. If it's not, ophthalmologists say you can then look for the following causes:
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Refutation(noun) the act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Origin: [L. refutatio: cf. F. rfutation.]
Example Sentences for refutation. 1  How clear, how true a refutation were these revealings of the imputations that had been cast upon her! 2  Surely the mere statement of such a notion is more than a refutation. 3  The discontinuity of semi-accusation was bewildering, and refutation hung fire for a moment.