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Definition of Day blindness

1. Noun. Inability to see clearly in bright light.

Definition of Day blindness

1. Noun. (medicine) The inability to see clearly in bright light; hemeralopia ¹

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Medical Definition of Day blindness

1. Day blindness, defective vision in a bright light. Origin: Gr. Hemera = day, alaos = blind This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Blindness

Literary usage of Day blindness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"In this sense it does not certainly appear that there is any such disease a> day-blindness. In amaurotic amblyopia, though the patient does not see well ..."

2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"In this sense it does not certainly appear that there is any such disease as day- blindness. In amaurotic amblyopia, though the patient does not see well ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1886)
"V. DAY-BLINDNESS. Although a considerable number of cases of day-blindness, in which vision in ordinary daylight is very imperfect, though of normal acuity, ..."

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