[
UK
/nˌɪktɐlˈəʊpiə/
]
NOUN
- inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder
How To Use nyctalopia In A Sentence
- Cataract attacks the blue-eyed more, but what is called ‘nyctalopia’ the dark-eyed. On the Generation of Animals
- Fundus examination is usually normal, distinguishing it from the progressive conditions causing nyctalopia.
- “Confound the nyctalopia!” said Paganel, inwardly, though delighted to be of any service to his friend. In Search of the Castaways
- 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
- Ophthalmologists are occasionally confronted with an individual presenting with nyctalopia (ie, a relatively greater difficulty seeing at night).
- About 90% of the female portion of the study suffer from Nyctalopia.
- A celebrated electrician and galvanist having conversed with me lately respecting this remedy for Nyctalopia, suggested to me the probability, that the same remedy might be effectual also in _gutta serena_, as both those disorders are known to proceed from a defect in the optic nerve. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
- The insensitivity to dim stimuli is accompanied by a mild nyctalopia.
- _Government_, offer to it, to discover the remedy for nyctalopia, 335. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
- His nyctalopia was a great advantage, his cat-like sight enabling him to distinguish the smallest object in the deepest gloom. In Search of the Castaways