Anti-glaucoma Agent

**Semantic type:** Chemical Viewed Functionally

**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)