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Definition: Hemianopsia |
HemianopsiaNoun1. Blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Partial or complete loss of vision in one half of the visual field(s) of one or both eyes. Subtypes include altitudinal hemianopsia, characterized by a visual defect above or below the horizontal meridian of the visual field. Homonymous hemianopsia refers to a visual defect that affects both eyes equally, and occurs either to the left or right of the midline of the visual field. Binasal hemianopsia consists of loss of vision in the nasal hemifields of both eyes. Bitemporal hemianopsia is the bilateral loss of vision in the temporal fields. Quadrantanopsia refers to loss of vision in one quarter of the visual field in one or both eyes. (references) |
Medicine | Blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: HemianopsiaSynonym: hemianopia (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: hemianopia (medicine). |
Crosswords: Hemianopsia |
| Specialty definitions using "hemianopsia": Classic Migraine ♦ incongruent hemianopsia ♦ ocular migraine, ophthalmic headache, ophthalmic migraine. (references) |
Expression using "hemianopsia": incongruent hemianopsia. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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hemianopsia | 12 |
hemianopsia homonymous | 10 |
bitemporal hemianopsia | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hemianopsia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | hemianopsia, hemianopsi (hemianopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hemiopie, hemiopia, hemianopsie (hemianopia), hemianopsia, hemianopie, hemianopia, hemiamaurosis, hemiamaurose, hemiablepsie, hemiablepsia, halfblindheid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hemianopsia (hemianopia), puolikentänpuutos (hemianopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | hémi-anopsie, hémianopsie (hemianopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Hemiopie, Hemianopsie, Hemianopsia, Hemiamaurose, Hemiablepsie, Halbsichtigkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ημιανοψία (hemianopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | emiopia, emianopsia (hemianopia), emianopia, emiamaurosi, emiablepsia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emianopsiahay hemianopsia. (various references) hemiopsia (hemianopia), hemiopía (hemianopia), hemianopsia (hemianopia), hemianopía (hemianopia), hemiablepsia (hemianopia), visus dimidiatus (hemianopia), escotoma hemianópsico (hemianopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-i-i-m-n-o-p-s" | |
-3 letters: aphonias, hominies, mahonias, paeanism. | |
-4 letters: amnesia, anemias, anomies, anopias, anopsia, anosmia, aphonia, apnoeas, epinaoi, epinaos, haemins, homines, impones, inphase, mahonia, paesani, paesano, paisano, peonism, phenoms, phonies, pianism, saphena, senopia, shipman, shipmen, shopman, shopmen, sinopia, sinopie. | |
-5 letters: ahimsa, amines, amnios, anemia, animas, animes, animis, anomie, anopia, apneas, apnoea, ashman, ashmen, eonism, haemin, hansom, hemins, imines, impish, impone, impose, inmesh, inseam, ionise, mahoes, manias, mashie, mesian, minish, mishap, mispen, monies, monish, mopish, opines, paeans, paeons, paesan, paisan, phenom, phones, pianos, poisha, ponies, saimin, sampan, seaman, semina, shaman, shapen, simian, siphon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-i-i-m-n-o-p-s" | |
+5 letters: cinematographies, pharmacokinetics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6D 69 61 6E 6F 70 73 69 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100001 01101110 01101111 01110000 01110011 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e m i a n o p s i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006D 0069 0061 006E 006F 0070 0073 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271797567808182857567 |
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