How To Use Blindness In A Sentence

Thoroughly frustrated with the blindness of his countrymen, he resolved to establish a community in America.
Strenuously jamming their alleged principles into an oubliette is an exercise that apparently causes blindness, as well. Archive 2009-11-01
Ten millilitres of pure methanol can cause blindness and 30 millilitres death, so it is just small amounts.
This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms. Gabriel Rotello: Deadly Error Alert: Andrew Sullivan's Latest AIDS Fantasy
Her blindness of both eyes resulted from a traffic accident.

Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
Onchocerciasis eliminated from west Africa: Officials from the World Health Organization last week celebrated the elimination of onchocerciasis, or river blindness, as a public health threat in west Africa.
For there is some degree of blindness and fear about these things, an avoidance of the spirit in athletics.
Unfortunately, the America's-always-to-blame bozos get all the publicity - and you're giving them more by implying that their moral blindness characterizes the academy as a whole.
Because wilful blindness to facts is rarely good policy. Times, Sunday Times
Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect. State of the Union
Recently Fuchs 14.133 has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
There are developmental problems: purblindness, other kinds of developmental problems.
Yet he has a very short fuse, perhaps the inevitable result of coping with his blindness in such a pressurised job.
During walks in the woods, Rusty, whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas, would follow Dugan, staying right at his ear.
Aware of his defenceless condition in the bright daylight, when his purblindness would prevent him from evading the attacks of his enemies, he seeks some obscure retreat where he may pass the day without exposing himself to observation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
Most authors on the subject state that people with colour blindness will adapt without any serious inconvenience or problems.
Examples of X-linked single gene disorders are: color blindness, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, and Hunter syndrome.
She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat. The Call of the North
So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz
But color blindness is itself a controversial concept: Some hold it as the highest ideal of true racial equality in a post-racial society, while others cynically dismiss it as a strategy for ignoring evidence of persistent racial discrimination. Wray Herbert: Colorblind? Or Just Blind to Justice?
But why to dream of lettuce should presage some ensuing disease, why to eat figs should signify foolish talk, why to eat eggs great trouble, and to dream of blindness should be so highly commended, according to the oneirocritical verses of Astrampsychus and Nicephorus, I shall leave unto your divination. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
After more than 50 years of searching, scientists have discovered a key gene that enables certain bacteria to cause blindness and debilitating genital tract infections.
Hudson falls for wife of man he killed, studies, cures her uncurable blindness in bare-chested operation-starts in death, ends in salvation, and updates a medieval mythology of efficacious grace into the apostatic 50s of luxury condos and kultchah, with uneasy overtones of capitalist will-to-power: a full-grown stereotype of moonlit joy rides, canted California beachlight, Swiss oompahpah, the world's best optometrists in labcoats, a hidden desert valley in Arizona that exists only for a hospital that exists only as the bedspring of recovery-emotional and physical-for our cut-out protagonists. The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide
The first is the banning of organochlorine pesticides such as dieldrin and aldrin, which caused blindness, immune-system collapse and mass-breeding failure. The Guardian World News
I've heard a lot the term inattention blindness used a lot - this is what happens, people have their eyes straight ahead, but they see nothing; they're minds are on the phone and their minds are elsewhere. A Rubber Door
Many country tour developments exist bigger blindness, considers at present, regardless of farsighted.
Rebecca turns to deception in order to correct her husband's blindness -- more metaphorical than literal -- and give the blessing to its more deserving recipient, Jacob, whom she now ropes into the dupery. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
In rare cases toxocariasis can lead to partial blindness and swelling of the organs and central nervous system.
The parasitic disease ‘river blindness, ‘or onchocerciasis, is also widespread in the south.’
But inability to navigate is as incomprehensible to me as colorblindness, or discalculia. John Joseph Adams » Adventures in the New Office
The worthless overture of the 'Prophete,' disfiguring this fine ensemble, had been hissed by some students of the Conservatoire, and, accustomed as I was to the blindness of the general public, knowing its implacable prejudices, I trembled for the fate of the magnificent septuor about to follow. The Great Italian and French Composers
Before we had been long on the Barrier he developed mischievous habits and became a rope eater and gnawer of other ponies 'fringes, as we called the coloured tassels we hung over their eyes to ward off snow-blindness. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
By today's standards, the theoretical blindness of the male 19 th-century craniologists seems outrageous.
Onchocerciasis is the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness.
The compound is a potent antibacterial and has shown efficacy in treating human cancers and an eye condition known as macular degeneration, which causes blindness. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Early diagnosis and treatment can usually prevent blindness.
There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied.
He had been left with a severe form of cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and cortical blindness.
Absorption of drugs often causes blindness -- tobacco, wood alcohol, lead, used in so many industries; bisulphide of carbon, used in making rubber; nitro-benzol, used in the manufacture of explosives, and some of the anilin dyes. Five Lectures on Blindness
Holding on to an error when it is conclusively pointed out from scripture would be considered willful blindness. and remember the Trinitarian controversy at First Nicene Council was not about the divinity of Christ it was about whether the Son was co eternal with Father. Blind Faith?
The spray from a skunk will not cause permanent blindness.
For example, malnutrition and lack of access to clean water can lead to blindness.
I am not going to apologise for what may appear to be more heteronormative homo-social blindness to one's own horizon of intelligibility.
It can also damage nerves in the face, which can lead to blindness. The Sun
People with face blindness, or prosopagnosia, cannot recognise people by their facial features alone. Times, Sunday Times
Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. Instinct With Hellish Life
They are more likely to have one or more chronic health problems, especially neurosensory conditions (cerebral palsy, blindness, or deafness), and are shorter than normal-weight babies. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The bank will match cash raised, which will go towards tackling avoidable blindness. The Sun
An eye examination is called for once a year to ensure that diabetes has not resulted in retinopathy, which could lead to blindness.
Higher Ground, an amazing nonprofit that taps into a network of resources to aid long-term rehabilitative efforts for veterans with traumatic brain injuries, blindness, severe burns, and much more. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The downstream retinal neurons that receive and process information from photoreceptor cells are preserved for years after the onset of blindness," says Dr. Collins, "giving hope that visual sensitivity might be restored by allowing the artificial input of information to these surviving cells. And Tomorrow's Winners Will Be...
This deficiency is the single-most important cause of blindness in about half a million children annually.
He added: ‘Children are at greatest risk of illness from dog mess and can catch diseases such as toxocariasis which can cause serious eye damage and even blindness.’
May have associated ocular symptoms including partial visual loss and field cuts, diplopia, ptosis, and blindness.
This leading cause of blindness in the elderly occurs when excess blood vessels start leaking into the eye.
Some 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women have some form of color blindness.
Modern, corporate farming - monocultural rice, or maize grown for export as cattle feed - is a prime cause of the deficiency that leads to blindness.
The gnarled , bearded features of homer are dear to me, for he , too , knew blindness.
The blindness that the disease causes will be permanent.
What exactly is colour-blindness and how do you find out if you have it?
The microfilariae are especially dangerous as they migrate to the surface of the cornea, causing eye infection and, eventually, blindness. ANC Daily News Briefing
How is this for sheer stupidity, moral blindness and ingratitude?
The blindness that the disease causes will be permanent.
He had been hit hard by snow blindness and had to wear tinted glasses throughout his life. Times, Sunday Times
The essential problem with compulsive gamblers, however, is their blindness to this pathological desire to lose.
It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
Instead they are labelled as bad at maths or stupid when, in fact, what they have is really no more than number blindness.
Glaucoma, which often leads to partial or total blindness, is caused by an increase of fluid pressure within the eyeball.
A. Day: nyctalopia (nik-tuh-LO-pee-uh) noun: Night blindness: a condition in which vision is faint or completely lost at night or in dim light. Nspblues Diary Entry
Lutein is a carotenoid thought to protect against age-related eye problems and blindness.
The visor of each blast helmet in the pod darkened accommodatingly within three milliseconds to avoid temporary blindness, but each member of the strike team squinted reflexively.
Agamemnon maintains that his blindness was an act of the gods.
Just over 5 percent of federal employees are disabled and less than 1 percent are people with targeted disabilities -- defined as deafness, blindness, mental retardation, dwarfism and paraplegia, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kudos to federal workers helping a deaf colleague
Retinal detachment (separation of the retina from the pigment epithelium behind it) is a rarer cause of blindness.
As these cells are lost, the light-sensitive cells slowly die, leading to blindness. Times, Sunday Times
Angiogenesis inhibitors are also used to treat macular degeneration, a common cause of blindness. Times, Sunday Times
Google has developed a system that can detect diabetic retinopathy, a cause of blindness, by looking at retina images. Times, Sunday Times
But that history sheds some degree of doubt on whether colorblindness is the operative meaning of the 14th amendment's section one, at least as originally understood by its framers. Balkinization
By the 1970s, researchers discovered that a major cause of childhood blindness in Third World countries was vitamin A deficiency.
Willing blindness seems to prevail among farmers who refuse to understand the idiocy of pricing milk at wildly differing price levels.
Vitamin A deficiency in humans, as well as rats, was later shown to produce serious eye damage (xerophthalmia) and it remains a major cause of blindness in the Third World. The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins
The hill was lightly talcumed with snow, glittering with crystal-like blindness, giving the impression of frigid formality; the December afternoon sun, sitting low in a field of blue, kindled a promising evening.
The old lady is cursed with blindness and difficulty in hearing.
Countries now routinely providing vitamin A have virtually eliminated vitamin Arelated blindness and death.
Josephine played upon his purblindness where she was concerned in most scandalous ways. The Tragedy of St. Helena
At a ceremony in the town, Salvadorean Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez asked forgiveness for what he called the "blindness of state violence". BBC News - Home
The moral blindness and institutional prejudice of those who worked the apparatus of apartheid shocks me still.
The roots of this tragic blindness must lie in capitalism's ability to alienate people from their environment for if people knew what they were doing to the land, they would change their ways.
Whole milk, eggs, and liver are also rich in vitamin A. · If the child is not likely to get these foods, or if he is developing signs of night blindness or xerophthalmia, give him vitamin A, 200,000 units (60 mg. retinol, in capsule or liquid) once every 6 months. Chapter 23
Around ten million people globally require surgery to prevent corneal blindness. The Sun
The term glaucoma encompasses a group of disorders that cause damage to the optic nerve, leading to vision loss or blindness if left untreated. National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases
Rivera's blindness was the cause of an eye disorder known as uveitis, which, if left untreated, can lead to blindness. Lead Stories from AOL
In hemianopsia persons complain of blindness in one eye.
Last fall, a team led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine reported they had successfully injected a gene via a genetically engineered vector into the retinas of 12 patients suffering from a blindness-causing genetic disease called Leber's congenital amaurosis. Study Shows Hope for Gene Therapy
Designed like a flashlight, this light saber (also dubbed a barf beamer and a puke saber) is intended to totally incapacitate its targets by emitting multiple light frequencies and colors that confuse the brain, resulting in symptoms ranging from discomfort and disorientation to temporary blindness and nausea. John W. Whitehead: Compliance Weapons: One Step Closer to a Police State?
She literally crowed with pleasure, declaring that now she understood my political blindness.
The experts are in accord as to the purblindness of love. The House of Toys
The abundant vitamin A contained in these foods can prevent vision decline and eye diseases like coronal dryness, night blindness and xerophthalmia, another form of dryness in the eye.
Yet because you are so wayward I will help you once or twice more, and then I will leave you to your own course -- which you, in your blindness, will call your kismet, not seeing that your fate is continually in your own hands -- more so at this moment than ever before. Mr. Isaacs
Just over 5 percent of federal employees are disabled and less than 1 percent are people with targeted disabilities -- defined as deafness, blindness, mental retardation, dwarfism and paraplegia, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kudos to federal workers helping a deaf colleague
Yea, such is the power of deceivable lusts, that many will admire at the blindness of others in former generations who considered not the works of God (as the Jews in ` the wilderness), when themselves are under actual contempt of no less glorious dispensations; like the Pharisees, who bewailed the folly of their fathers in persecuting the prophets, when themselves were endeavouring to kill the Son of God, Matt. xxiii. The Sermons of John Owen
Great claims were made for the beneficial effects of the Streatham waters, which were said to cure all manner of ills, including rheumatism, gout, jaundice, bilious attacks and even blindness.
Recently Fuchs has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
These compounds were employed on a large scale to produce temporary blindness by lachrymation, or weeping. The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
His essay on “Color Blindness” is, we believe, as perfect a monogram as exists, and will remain likely untouched and unadded to, _factum ad unguem_. Spare Hours
Blindness is a common complication of diabetes.
Victory, rendered cheap and easy by reason of the purblindness of the frantic cook, who was trying to persuade Mr. Green to raise his face from the floor so that he could punch it for him, remained with Joe and Ben, who, in reply to the angry shouts of the skipper from above, pointed silently to the combatants. A Master Of Craft
It was probably some combination of liberal blindness, centrist caution, and simple lack of imagination.
What is called "_sick headache_," or "nervous headache," begins by a sense of blindness or blur, before the eyes, of green or purple colors, dazzling or swimming in the head, without, for some time at first, any positive aching or pain. An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
It is wilful blindness that lies behind the often sluggish reaction of the medical establishment to new research. Times, Sunday Times
Also I'd suggest this is so the posters still stand out to people with dichromic colour blindness. Orange/Blue Contrast in Movie Posters | /Film
(often blindness), rashes, skin lesions, intense itching and de-pigmentation of the skin, and lymphadenitis. ANC Daily News Briefing
Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect. Anatomy of Melancholy
Also called onchocerciasis, river blindness is caused by a parasitic worm whose larvae are transmitted by the bite of the black fly, which breeds by fast-flowing streams. News24 Top Stories
When that is coupled with temporary blindness by the sun, a hidden trap lies waiting to ensnare the unwary driver.
The mere mention of his name cured this man blindness. Lean Left » Blog Archive » Chuck Norris
Leber congenital amaurosis is an inherited disease that is believed to cause up to 20 percent of all cases of childhood blindness.
To rave about this performance is tantamount to wilful blindness. Times, Sunday Times
The use of the term appeared to be a kind of culturally inspired, willful blindness for these family members. Crazy Like Us
These defects, which include conditions such as hemophilia and color-blindness, are called X-linked because the genes are carried on the X chromosome.
Blindness need no longer be a barrier for people who want to appreciate art.
REPORTER A: River blindness is caused by a parasitic worm that lived under the surface of the skin.
People deficient in retinoids suffer night blindness and dryness of the eyes (xerophthalmia). The Antioxidant Health Plan
Severe vision changes is code for blindness and loss of hearing means deafness. OpEdNews - Diary: Alternative Medicine for Affordable Health Care and Overcoming Anxiety
Vitamin A (retinol) - for night blindness and xerophthalmia Chapter 31
The drinks contain poisons including chloroform, meths and isopropanol and can cause cancer, liver failure, blindness, coma and even death. The Sun
It may affect the eyes, causing iritis and blindness. iritis 1) Head Control and Use of Senses
Overweening distrust of authority can lead to blindness as much as to liberation.
Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friend in the world.
In the subtle interflow of good and evil; in the unmerited sufferings of innocence; in the disproportion of penalties to desert; in the seeming blindness with which justice, in attempting to assert itself, overwhelms innocent and guilty in a common ruin, -- Shakespeare is true to real experience. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
Since a drug was invented to treat river blindness in the 1970s, the disease has declined dramatically. Smithsonian Mag
We should do something concrete about this instead of pretending that a faux colorblindness will make it all go away.
TALLMADGE: Spinach, kale, they're loaded with a nutrient called lutein and studies are confirming that lutein is important for prevention of macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness as we age, but also cataracts and other eye diseases. CNN Transcript May 24, 2007
It is a highly poisonous substance and as little as 30 millilitres is enough to kill a person, with 10 millilitres being enough to cause blindness.
How could she possibly descry the ship's position from a standpoint of utter blindness.
The tears that Lesley cries are the secretions of chance, of her blindness to its aberrancy, and they wash her adolescent eyes with stinging hindsight. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
If unmanaged, it can lead to blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.
Blindness can be a terrible affliction.
The question suggests a blindness to the fact that sportswomen around the world are accomplishing remarkable feats.
It takes a World War, diphtheria and blindness to sort it all out.
Blindness is also a major handicap to the recognition of a potential mate, as is deviant colouration.
Obvious other exclusions include blindness and deafness as well as rare birth defects.
The treatment marked the 15th anniversary of Merck & Company's MDP, a campaign that has combatted onchocerciasis, more commonly known as river blindness, through the free supply of the drug to any country that needed it.
My mother is cursed with blindness and difficulty in hearing.
While in a hospital suffering from mutism and hysterical blindness, he had a vision that he had a great mission to perform - that he was chosen by Providence to liberate Germany from reparations and make it great.
His eyesight had grown dimmer, but otherwise his bodily health had improved, for nowadays he ate food enough: and, as for purblindness, why there was no real need to keep watch on the sea. Lady Good-for-Nothing
That charge could make sense on the assumption that the “colour-blindness” of the programmes advocated is merely pretextual. The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
If it fails, diabetes may develop, which can cause blindness and kidney failure. 7.
Some tests already exist, for example helping weed out the gene causing late-onset blindness in gordon setters. Times, Sunday Times
Two of the diseases, onchocerciasis, known as river blindness, and trachoma, a bacterial eye infection, cause blindness. 1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
No color feebleness, no color blindness. No seriously illness and deformity.
Injuries to the eye are one of the most common preventable causes of blindness.
During last week's hearing, James Murdoch was asked if he was familiar with the term "willful blindness," which was used to describe the behavior of senior executives at Enron, who allegedly averted their eyes from wrongdoing. NYT > Home Page
See how web colour palettes change with colourblindness using Cal's Color Vision.
The Virginia-based company has about 60 full-time and contracted employees, most of whom have developmental or physical disabilities ranging from bipolar disorder, blindness, brain injury or cerebral palsy to quadriplegia. Daughter motivates mom to become entrepeneur
TALLMADGE: Spinach, kale, they are loaded with a nutrient called lutein (ph), and studies are confirming that lutein is important for macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness as we age, but also cataracts and other eye diseases. CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2006
And finally, oxygen therapy given to sustain the lives of premature infants can cause retinopathy of prematurity, causing permanent vision loss or blindness.
River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is spread by the bites of black flies, which carry the parasite from person to person. Rene Le Berre, who led successful fight against river blindness, dies
In the direction of the beneficial meddling of Europe, the recognition of the FARC as a belligerent force is fundamental, as it is well indicated by the insurgent organization itself, since the demential blindness of Alvaro Uribe Vélez only allows him to listen to the warmongering 'siren songs' of the United States, which at the same time satisfy his morbid obsession. Is The FARC A terrorist organisation ?
Its bite produces a worm which swells up the blood vessels, causing ulcers and, in the worst cases, blindness.
He was distracted from his blindness, he says, by the deluge of mental and physical challenges coming his way.
Examples of the tragedies caused by the scientific fraud that is vivisection include thalidomide and roaccutane which caused horrific birth deformities, clioquinol which causes blindness in humans, and the sleeping tablet halcion which caused serious mental disturbances," Miller, a zoology honours graduate, said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Only about 0.005% of the population (male and female) are totally colour blind, and 0.003% have tritanopia, or blue-blindness.
For mental blindness, thoughtlessness and rashness pertain to imprudence, which is to be found in every sin, even as prudence is in every virtue. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Outside of your screed on liberal politics, however, your rush to colorblindness is somewhat circuitous due to: 1. a history of white supremacy and 2. statements like this student that, at least to me, can be read as an endorsement of group decision-making and a presumption of deficiency by those who make decisions as to the allocation of resources, jobs, justice and wealth. The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
Yvonne Sleightholme was arrested soon afterwards, but before she could be brought to trial she went blind - a condition referred to in those days as hysterical blindness.
Haas was born with a kind of degenerative blindness called Leber's congenital amaurosis. Science Question From a Toddler: What do blind people see? Boing Boing
Symptoms of quinine toxicity include diarrhea, vomiting, confusion, blindness, tinnitus, and paralysis (note the similarity with typhoid, typhus, and remittent fever symptoms).
It is, however, susceptible to entropion, an eye disease which can cause blindness as the lashes penetrate the cornea.
Milton's blindness forced him to dictate to an amanuensis.
Countries now routinely providing vitamin A have virtually eliminated vitamin Arelated blindness and death.
If the warning is not heeded sudden excruciating pain and eye-watering blindness may follow.
Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can lead to damage to the eye's optic nerve and result in blindness.
Each adult female worm, thin but more than 1/2 metre in length, produces millions of microfilariae (microscopic larvae) that migrate throughout the body and give rise to a variety of symptoms: serious visual impairment, including blindness; rashes, lesions, intense itching and depigmentation of the skin; lymphadenitis, which results in hanging groins and elephantiasis of the genitals; and general debilitation. Chapter 2
The regular color blindness tests (Ishikawa plates) test primarily for red-green (protanopia and deuteranopia), and not for tritanopia. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
Congressman Rush Holt, D-New Jersey, Thursday accused the Pentagon of what he called "willful blindness" in not acting faster to identify and correct the problems and fully report them. CNN.com
The most common and most serious eye complication of diabetes is diabetic retinopathy, which may result in poor vision or even blindness.
He had been hit hard by snow blindness and had to wear tinted glasses throughout his life. Times, Sunday Times
In extreme cases, the disease can lead to blindness.
In addition, damage to retinal layer blood vessels of the eye can result in blindness.
Once the agreement is made, willful blindness will not save the co-conspirators from being responsible for other conspirators' acts.
To rave about this performance is tantamount to wilful blindness. Times, Sunday Times
Besides, that blindness, ignorance, darkness, deadness, which is everywhere ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprise that also whereof we speak. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
These are frequently attended by obscuration of vision or temporary blindness. THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE
The adoption of remembrance-guided search method emphasizes local optimum value in each remembrance segment, which avoids the blindness of global search.
All the elements of the theatrical cycle of tragedy are there: over-vaulting ambition, blindness to reality, a hard, harsh landing.
You can see there are corneal ulcers, possible blindness from infection, conjunctivitis, which is just an infection of the eyelid and surrounding eye, corneal swelling, which is just a very unpretty site, corneal abrasion and scarring, reduction in visual function. CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2002
She is soon faced with the prospect of total blindness.
Blindness, offering the title affliction as yet another way of undermining the social order and illustrating the standard dystopic notions of power corrupting basic moral principles. PopMatters
The second dominating influence moulding his life was the threat of blindness that hit him just after he had arrived at Edinburgh University as an outstanding sportsman and scholar aged 17.
Long-term complications include heart disease, blindness and nerve damage. Times, Sunday Times
For example, diarrhea medicines containing clioquinol caused thousands of cases of blindness and paralysis in Japan. 1) Head Control and Use of Senses
Symptoms of shingles include fever, headache, chills and upset stomach, and can lead to other complications of pneumonia, hearing problems, blindness, brain inflammation known as encephalitis or death. Undefined
The regular color blindness tests (Ishikawa plates) test primarily for red-green (protanopia and deuteranopia), and not for tritanopia. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
I for one cannot believe that love of one's country must needs consist in blindness to its social faults, to deafness to its social discords, of inarticulation to its social wrongs. Excerpt from Goldman's speech to the jury at her trial for conspiracy to obstruct the draft
Despite color blindness that would prevent him from recognizing the distinctive green for ‘go,’ he was accepted as a paratrooper.
She had read about some of them in her herbology book: a substance called belladonna, which women applied to their eyes to beautify the pupils and which could lead to blindness, and another one called arsenic, which women swallowed in order to improve their skin and which was fatal in large enough doses. Beauty
Many people with total blindness experience life-long sleeping problems because their retinas are unable to detect light.
Early diagnosis and treatment can usually prevent blindness.

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