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What is an amaurosis?
An amaurosis is a form of blindness with no accompanying obvious changes to the eye, often as a result to disease of the optic nerve.
The greatest single cause of blindness in the world is?
Tracoma, a serious eye infection and the greatest single cause of blindness by an infectious disease.
How do you cure blindness in horses?
In the vast majority of cases, blindness in horses is incurable. This is because blindness in horses tends to be due to either a severe infection within the eye that has scarred the retina, cornea or lens or due to a neoplasm in the eye that has obliterated the tissues.
What sicknesses did Anne Sullivan have?
Anne Sullivan suffered from trachoma, an infectious eye disease that led to her own blindness. She also experienced chronic illnesses such as tuberculosis and pneumonia throughout her life. Despite her health challenges, she remained dedicated to educating and empowering her famous student, Helen Keller.
What is the kind of blindness that Vitamin A deficiency causes?
The first sign of Vitamin A deficiency is night blindness. Severe Vitamin A deficiency can cause Xerophthalmia (dry eye in which the eyes cannot produce tears) and complete blindness.
How did john Dalton get eye disease?
John Dalton did not "get eye disease". He had, from birth, a vision abnormality that led to partial colour blindness -- red-green blindness. When, at the end of the 18th century, he recognised this deficiency, and wrote a scholarly paper which first described this problem, colour blindness became widely known as "daltonism".
What blindness causing disease originates not in the eye but the brain?
pituitary adenoma affecting the optic chiasm.
How do you use retina in a sentence?
Macular degeneration is a disease of the eye that causes blindness by destroying the retina.
Is the safest way to view the sun is with binocular?
No it's not that can actually cause severe damage to your eye or complete blindness.
Disease caused due to lack of vitamin A?
night blindness is cuased due to the lack of vitamin eye .
What condition may lead to blindness due to increased pressure?
You are describing the eye disease known as glaucoma.
What is the life expectancy of someone with the disease blindness?
Color blindness that is inherited is present in both eyes and remains constant over an individual's entire life. Some cases of acquired color vision loss are not severe, may appear in only one eye, and last for only a short time.
