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Glossary - B

blindness

Definition:

  • blindness - being without sight; or, having a maximal visual acuity after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).

 

| balanitis | blepharitis | blindness | brain edema | breast engorgement | bursitis |

 

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