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.]
The core meaning of refute is âprove a statement or theory to be wrongâ, as in attempts to refute Einstein's theory. In the second half of the 20th century a more general sense developed, meaning simply âdenyâ, as in I absolutely refute the charges made against me. Traditionalists object to this newer use as an unacceptable degradation of the language, but it is widely encountered