| NOUN | night blindness | - | |
| SYNO | moon blindness | night blindness | nyctalopia |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
21 translations
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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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