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Night Blindness

Known as: Nyctalopia, BLINDNESS NIGHT, Night Blindness [Disease/Finding] 
Failure or imperfection of vision at night or in dim light, with good vision only on bright days. (Dorland, 27th ed)
National Institutes of Health

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Visual disturbance

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Review
2009
Review
2009
Intrastromal corneal ring implants for corneal thinning disorders: an evidence-based analysis.
OBJECTIVE The purpose of this project was to determine the role of corneal implants in the management of corneal thinning disease… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Army Digital Systems and Vulnerability to Change Blindness
Abstract : The failure to detect what should be a fairly obvious visual change is known as "change blindness." Change blindness… 
1999
1999
Avoidable blindness.
Current global estimates indicate that blindness affects close to 45 million people, with nine out of ten blind people living in… 
1994
1994
Short-term night blindness associated with colon resection and hypovitaminosis A.
Acquired night blindness is frequently due to vitamin A deficiency and may result from poor dietary intake, decreased absorption… 
1986
1986
Mild Hypoxia and Visual Performance with Night Vision Goggles
Military night vision goggles (NVGs) are image intensifiers normally used when the human operator's visual capabilities are… 
1976
1976
Night blindness and the retinal mechanism of visual adaptation.
An account is given of investigations into the mechanisms of dark-adaptation in the retina of man and of the skate and other fish… 
1972
1972
Rhodopsin bleaching signals in essential night blindness
1. The dark‐adaptation curves of two subjects with essential night blindness revealed no evidence for functioning rod vision… 
1969
1969
The visual evoked response in hysterical amblyopia.
amblyopia is a term used to describe a syndrome in which reduction of visual acuity accompanied by contraction of the visual… 
1955
1955
Electroretinography in night blindness and other vitamin A deficiencies.
An extinguished electroretinogram in cases of retinitis pigmentosa has been demonstrated by Prof. G. Karpe, of Sweden. Lorrin A… 
1954
1954
Electroretinogram in nyctalopia.
THE PRESENCE of distinct defects in the electroretinogram (ERG) in the varying forms of night blindness has been well documented… 
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