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 Translation for 'night blindness' from English to Russian
NOUN   night blindness | -
SYNO moon blindness | night blindness | nyctalopia
мед.
никталопия {ж}
night blindness
Partial Matches
слепота {ж}blindness
мед.
аносмия {ж}
smell blindness
ночь {ж}night
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весенняя ночь {ж}spring night
летняя ночь {ж}summer night
осенняя ночь {ж}autumn night
метео.
штормовая ночь {ж}
stormy night
лунная ночь {ж}moonlit night
брачная ночь {ж}wedding night
полярная ночь {ж}polar night
зоол.T
ночные ящерицы {мн} [семейство Xantusiidae]
night lizards
ночное небо {с}night sky
брачная ночь {ж}bridal night
майская ночь {ж}May night
декабрьская ночь {ж}December night
ихтио.T
кубинская ночная акула {ж} [Carcharhinus signatus]
night shark
Спокойной ночи!Good night!
однажды ночью {adv}one night
ночью {adv}at night
ночной {adj}night [attr.]
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Usage Examples English
  • 9% of the population, which appears as mild to moderate night-blindness around the age of ten.
  • vitamin A deficiency, which is related to heart disease and night blindness.
  • A peculiar outbreak of Nyctalopia or night-blindness affected many of the prisoners in 1806.
  • Vitamin A deficiency in expecting mothers increases the mortality rate of children shortly after childbirth. Night blindness is one of the first signs of vitamin A deficiency.
  • Reversible night blindness is an early indicator of low vitamin A status.

  • It is a symptom of several eye diseases. Night blindness may exist from birth, or be caused by injury or malnutrition (for example, vitamin A deficiency).
  • The earliest clinical sign of progressive retinal atrophy is "night blindness."
  • This causes night blindness at first and eventually complete blindness.
  • and cause temporary night-blindness among the gun crew by photo-bleaching visual purple.
  • Insufficiency of adaptation most commonly presents as insufficient adaptation to dark environment, called night blindness or "nyctalopia".

  • Appaloosas are prone to develop equine recurrent uveitis and congenital stationary night blindness; the latter has been linked to the leopard complex.
  • The degeneration is usually first noticed as night blindness (nyctalopia); peripheral vision is gradually lost, restricting the visual field (tunnel vision), which generally progresses to complete blindness.
  • Consequently, fewer rod cells are able to sufficiently respond in darker conditions, and as the cone cells are poorly adapted for sight in the dark, blindness can result.
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