Nyctalopia

Definition: Nyctalopia

Nyctalopia

Noun

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

Etymology: Nyctalopia \Nyc`ta*lo"pi*a\, noun. [Latin expression nyctalopia, from nyctalops nyctalops. Greek meant, person affected either with day blindness or with night blindness, and in the former case was derived from night + the eye; in the latter, from blind]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Nyctalopia

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

Crosswords: Nyctalopia

English words defined with "nyctalopia": Day blindness ♦ Moonblink ♦ Nyctalops, Nyctalopy. (references)

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Language		Translations for "nyctalopia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		niktalopi. (various references)

Bulgarian		кокоша слепота (moonblindness, mooneye, night blindness), никталопия. (various references)

Danish		natteblindhed (hemeralopia, night blindness, nocturnal amblyopia). (various references)

Dutch		nachtblindheid (night-blindness). (various references)

Esperanto		hemeralopio (night-blindness). (various references)

Finnish		nyktalopia, päiväsokeus. (various references)

French		nyctalopie. (various references)

German		Nykteralopie, Nyktalopie, Tagblindheit. (various references)

Greek		νυκταλωπία. (various references)

Hungarian		alkonyati vakság. (various references)

Italian		nictalopia (haemeralopia, night blindness). (various references)

Manx		dellid oie. (various references)

Pig Latin		yctalopianay

Portuguese		nictalopia (nylon), fossar (grub). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		noćno slepilo (night blindness). (various references)

Spanish		nictalopía. (various references)

Swedish		nyktolopia, nyktalopi, nattblindhet (night blindness, night-blindness). (various references)

Ukranian		куряча сліпота (night blindness), нікталопія. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nyctalopia": nyctalopias. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "nyctalopia" (pronounced 'Nyc`ta*lo"pi*a'): Ametropia, Anisometropia, Anorthopia, Asthenopia, Atropia, Cornucopia, hemeralopia, Lycanthropia, Myopia, Porpita, Presbyopia, Rupia, Utopia. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-o-p-t-y"
	-1 letter: acylation, placation.
	-2 letters: analytic, atypical, platonic, ponytail, talapoin.
	-3 letters: actinal, acyloin, alation, anality, anticly, capital, capitol, captain, caption, claypan, coalpit, inaptly, opacity, optical, paction, platina, playact, pliancy, ptyalin, tapioca, topical, typical.
	-4 letters: action, aliyot, alnico, anopia, apical, atonal, atonic, atopic, atypic, canola, canopy, capita, caplin, captan, catalo, cation, catlin, catnap, catnip, citola, coital, latino.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-o-p-t-y"
	+1 letter: coplanarity, nyctalopias.
	+2 letters: plastocyanin, platonically.
	+3 letters: anaphylactoid, complaisantly, plastocyanins, postcranially.
	+4 letters: occupationally, phthalocyanine, platinocyanide, pleonastically, psychoanalytic.
	+5 letters: anisotropically, compassionately, computationally, incomparability, neuropathically, phthalocyanines, platinocyanides, sycophantically.
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