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Meaning of "night blindness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NIGHT BLINDNESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NIGHT BLINDNESS

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Night blindness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NIGHT BLINDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nyctalopia

Nyctalopia, also called night blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light. It is a symptom of several eye diseases. Night blindness may exist from birth, or be caused by injury or malnutrition. It can be described as insufficient adaptation to darkness. The most common cause of nyctalopia is retinitis pigmentosa, a disorder in which the rod cells in the retina gradually lose their ability to respond to the light. Patients suffering from this genetic condition have progressive nyctalopia and eventually their daytime vision may also be affected. In X-linked congenital stationary night blindness, from birth the rods either do not work at all, or work very little, but the condition doesn't get worse. Another cause of night blindness is a deficiency of retinol, or vitamin A, found in fish oils, liver and dairy products. The opposite problem, the inability to see in bright light, is known as hemeralopia and is much rarer. Since the outer area of the retina is made up of more rods than cones, loss of peripheral vision often results in night blindness.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NIGHT BLINDNESS

night and day
night dancer
night editor
night fighter
night heron
night latch
night letter
night nurse
night out
night owl
night porter
night raven
night robe
night safe
night school
night shelter
night shift
night sights
night sky
night soil

WORDS THAT END LIKE NIGHT BLINDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of night blindness in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «night blindness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NIGHT BLINDNESS

Find out the translation of night blindness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of night blindness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «night blindness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

夜盲症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ceguera nocturna
570 millions of speakers

English

night blindness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रतौंधी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العمى الليلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

куриная слепота
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cegueira noturna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাতকানা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cécité nocturne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Buta malam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachtblindheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

夜盲
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

야맹증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wuta wengi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bệnh quáng gà
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரவு குருட்டுத்தன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रात्री अंधत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gece körlüğü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nictalopia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ślepota
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

куряча сліпота
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

orbire de noapte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τύφλωση νύχτα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nag blindheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nattblindhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nattblindhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of night blindness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NIGHT BLINDNESS»

The term «night blindness» is regularly used and occupies the 61.459 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NIGHT BLINDNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about night blindness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIGHT BLINDNESS»

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Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition
FIGURE 11-5 Vitamin A–Deficiency Symptom—Night Blindness rate is measured with electrodes. In dim light, you can make out the details in this room. You are using your rods for vision. blinds you as the pigment in the rods is bleached.
Sharon Rady Rolfes, Kathryn Pinna, Ellie Whitney, 2011
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Ophthalmology
A novel mutation within the rhodopsin gene (Thr-94-lle) causing auto- somal dominant congenital stationary night blindness. Hum Mutat. 1999;1 3:75-81. 13. Gal A, Xu S, PizenikY, etal. Gene for autosomal dominant congenital stationary night ...
Myron Yanoff, Jay S. Duker, James J. Augsburger, 2009
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Understanding Nutrition
Vitamin A supplements also protect against blindness and the complications of other life-threatening infections, including malaria, lung diseases, and HIV ( human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS). night Blindness Night ...
Eleanor Whitney, Sharon Rady Rolfes, 2012
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Principles of Nutritional Assessment
arises when there is reduced production in the rods of the visual pigment rhodopsin, or opsin protein bound to the retinal form of vitamin A. To assess the prevalence of night blindness, the local term for night blindness must first be identified ...
Rosalind S. Gibson, 2005
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A Bibliography of Visual Literature, 1939-1944
NIGHT VISION— NIGHT BLINDNESS 440-482 simple pour la determination de l' hemeralopie latente et la mise en evidence des precarences en vitamine A. C. R. Soc. Biol. Paris, 1942, 136: 581-582. 440. *Tassi, G. L'avitaminosi A in Eritrea; ...
Phebe Margaret Hoff, Henrietta Tarlson Perkins, 1945
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Retinal Degenerative Diseases
Allen L E Zito I Bradshaw K et al (2003) Genotype-phenotype correlation in British families with X linked congenital stationary night blindness. Br J Ophthalmol 87:1413–1420 Audo I Kohl S Leroy B P et al (2009)TRPM1 is mutated in patients ...
Matthew M. LaVail, John Ash, Robert E. Anderson, 2011
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Vitamin History, the Early Years
The old Greek, Roman and Arab physicians recommended an internal and external therapy with livers of goats to overcome night blindness. The Greek Hippocrates, who lived 460-325 B.C., recognized night blindness and recommended ...
Lee McDowell, 2013
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Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora
Oh, my husband will suffer from night blindness. Oh, my husband will suffer from night blindness. Oh, I cannot count days and nights past. My husband will suffer from night blindness. All day and night this spell does not break. All day and ...
Helen Myers, 1998
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The Vitamin A Story: Lifting the Shadow of Death
Some naval physicians therefore subscribed to the belief that so long an exposure brilliant light was causing night blindness [23]. Too much light, the theory held, led to 'an exhausted condition of the retina' [24]. To some physicians – and ...
Richard D. Semba, 2012
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The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision Impairment
164 night blindness night blindness The inability to see clearly at night or in low light. The condition results from damage or defect in the rods of the RETINA. The retina receives reflected light from an object. Light-sensitive cells called RODS ...
Jill Sardegna, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIGHT BLINDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term night blindness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Long-sought discovery fills in missing details of cell “switchboard”
... Xu's team used samples of a form of human rhodopsin—a GPCR found in the retina whose dysfunction can cause night blindness—fused to ... «R & D Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Lighthouse director claims bagging queen title
Night blindness is one of the early symptoms because of the disease that affects the retina. “Patrick is going to have the advantage of his 30 ... «Suncoast News, Jul 15»
3
Vitamin A prevents night blindness, yes, but does Golden Rice?
Journalist Will Saletan set the Internet afire yesterday with his long-form piece against anti-GMO activists. A key component of his argument is ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
4
Global Industry Insight: Vitamin Supplements Market Development …
Deficiency of vitamin in body at older age increases the risk of diseases such as night blindness, diminishing eyesight, fragile bones and ... «Medgadget.com, Jul 15»
5
Witness details moments before Santa Rosa slaying
She said she suffers from night blindness so could not see in detail what was happening. However, she said, it was clear there was some kind ... «Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Jul 15»
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Novel and recurrent CIB2 variants, associated with nonsyndromic …
At their last visit in the clinic at the ages of 7 (II.1) and 4 years (II.2), the affected sibs did not have any signs of night blindness as an early ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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I'm a legally blind photographer. Here's how modern technology …
And with retinitis pigmentosa comes night blindness, which meant I couldn't see in a darkroom to use the chemicals and develop photos, nor ... «Vox, Jul 15»
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'It's time Indian agriculture policy thought about nutrition'
Take the instance of Golden Rice - Vitamin A rich rice - that can potentially remove night blindness among children. It can address the problem ... «Business Today, Jul 15»
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Exclusive interview: Dan Dotson talks 'Storage Wars' and American …
He can play the guitar just like he always could and his night blindness is even better. Sometimes he will get a bit tired, but he just takes a nap ... «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
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Turkey's first bionic eye operation successful
Mrs. Öztürk, who had retinitis pigmentosa (widely known as night blindness) had lost her eyesight 20 years ago when she gave birth to her ... «Daily Sabah, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Night blindness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/night-blindness>. Apr 2024 ».
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