Night Blindness

Definition: Night Blindness

Night Blindness

Noun

1. Inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder.

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Anomaly of vision in which there is a pronounced inadequacy or complete absence of dark-adaptation. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Night Blindness

Synonyms: moon blindness (n), nyctalopia (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Night Blindness

English words defined with "night blindness": A, antiophthalmic factor, axerophthol ♦ vitamin A. (references)

Specialty definitions using "night blindness": Choroideremia ♦ Retinitis Pigmentosa ♦ story. (references)

Etymologies containing "night blindness": Nyctalopia. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Retinitis pigmentosa in the form of night blindness usually begins sometime during puberty. (references)
Worker Rights	China	Nutritional deficiency ailments, such as goiter (from a lack of iodine), night blindness (from a lack of Vitamin A), and rickets are said to be relatively common among children in some areas. (references)
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Language		Translations for "night blindness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏العشي سوء البصر في الليل. (various references)

Bulgarian		кокоша слепота (moonblindness, mooneye, nyctalopia). (various references)

Danish		natteblindhed (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia, nyctalopia), hemeralopia (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia), hemeralopi (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia). (various references)

Dutch		nachtblindheid (hemeralopia, night-blindness, nocturnal amblyopia, nyctalopia), hemeralopie (haemeralopia, hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia, nyctalopia), hemeralopia (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia), dagblindheid (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia, nyctalopia). (various references)

Finnish		hämäräsokeus. (various references)

French		héméralopie. (various references)

German		Nachtblindheit (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia). (various references)

Greek		ημεραλωπία (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia). (various references)

Hungarian		farkasvakság. (various references)

Italian		nictalopia (haemeralopia, nyctalopia), emeralopia (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia), cecit� notturna (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia), ambliopia crepuscolare (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		夜盲症 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		やもうしょう. (various references)

Pig Latin		ightnay indnessblay

Portuguese		hemeralopia (haemeralopia, hemeralopia, nightclothes, nocturnal amblyopia), cegueira nocturna (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia), ave noturna. (various references)

Romanian		nictalopie. (various references)

Russian		никталопия (night-blindness, nyctalopia). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		noćno slepilo (nyctalopia). (various references)

Spanish		ceguera nocturna (hemeralopia, nocturnal amblyopia). (various references)

Swedish		nattblindhet (night-blindness, nyctalopia). (various references)

Turkish		gece körlüğü (moonblindness). (various references)

Ukranian		куряча сліпота (nyctalopia). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-n-s-s-t"
	-3 letters: bindingness.
	-4 letters: dissenting, nightsides, sidelights.
	-5 letters: blighties, blindness, delisting, desisting, destining, dinginess, enlisting, indenting, indigents, intending, lightness, listening, nestlings, nightless, nightside, sennights, shielding, shielings, sidelight, thingness, tinniness, tinseling.
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