Diseases

Vision Disorders

Visual impairments limiting one or more of the basic functions of the eye: visual acuity, dark adaptation, color vision, or peripheral vision. These may result from EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAY diseases; OCCIPITAL LOBE diseases; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; and other conditions (From Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p132).

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Visual impairments limiting one or more of the basic functions of the eye: visual acuity, dark adaptation, color vision, or peripheral vision. These may result from EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAY diseases; OCCIPITAL LOBE diseases; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; and other conditions (From Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p132).

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23 entry terms
  • Visual Disorders
  • Disorder, Visual
  • Disorders, Visual
  • Vision Disorder
  • Visual Disorder
  • Day Blindness
  • Hemeralopia
  • Macropsia
  • Metamorphopsia
  • Micropsia
  • Vision Disability
  • Visual Impairment
  • Blindness, Day
  • Disabilities, Vision
  • Disability, Vision
  • Hemeralopias
  • Impairment, Visual
  • Impairments, Visual
  • Macropsias
  • Metamorphopsias
  • Micropsias
  • Vision Disabilities
  • Visual Impairments

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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general or unspecified: prefer specifics; / diag: consider also DlAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; for Braille coordinate with SENSORY AIDS + READING

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1967

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  • Vision (1966)

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  1. C10w.597.751.941w
  2. C11w.966w
  3. C23.888w.592.763.941w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Vision Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014786. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014786
  2. Vision Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_disorder
  3. Vision Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q767669