Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common name for the visual defect by which objects are seen distinctly only by a dim light: the opposite of
daysight .
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- noun The state or quality of being
day-blind .
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Hemeralopia (etymologically day-blindness, but by common usage meaning day-vision or night-blindness) is a symptom of a peculiar degenerative disease of the retina, called retinitis pigmentosa.
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Hemeralopia (etymologically day-blindness, but by common usage meaning day-vision or night-blindness) is a symptom of a peculiar degenerative disease of the retina, called retinitis pigmentosa.
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