Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.

" Blindness is frequently used to describe severe visual impairment with residual vision.

Blindness is defined as visual acuity of less than 20 / 400 ( 6 / 120 ), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 10 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.

For example, Blindness is not a separate entity, but is merely a lack or privation of sight.

The group is also notable for having more success with the songs of Laura Nyro than Nyro did herself, particularly with " Stoned Soul Picnic ", " Sweet Blindness ", " Wedding Bell Blues ", " Blowin ' Away ", and " Save the Country ".

Before the National Eye Institute ( NEI ) was established, primary responsibility for vision research at NIH was done by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness ( NINDB ) ( which is now known as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ).

Hysterical Blindness is a made-for-HBO movie directed by Mira Nair and starring Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Ben Gazzara.

Black Widow is also featured in the short story Love Is Blindness in I Heart Marvel: Marvel Ai ( 2006 ) # 1 ( April 2006 ), where she instigates a humorous fight with Elektra over Daredevil's affections.

Blindness (, meaning Essay on Blindness ) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago.

Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows.

The lack of proper character names in Blindness is typical of many of Saramago's novels ( e. g. All the Names or The Cave ).

Nyctalopia ( from Greek νύκτ -, nykt-" night "; and αλαός, alaos " blindness ") also called " Night Blindness " is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light.

Moores is also the founder of the River Blindness Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to research and treatment of Onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of infectious blindness.

The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness ( IAPB ) is a coordinating, umbrella organization to lead an international effort in mobilizing resources for blindness prevention activities.

Blindness or loss of vision indicates involvement of the orbital apex, which is more serious, requiring urgent surgical intervention.

Repetition Blindness ( RB ) is a phenomenon observed in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation.

Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso's works of this period, also represented in The Blindman's Meal ( 1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art ) and in the portrait of Celestina ( 1903 ).

The US vinyl edition of the record is pressed on two discs and contains an alternate version of the track " Blindness ".

* November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas ; On His Blindness ; L ’ Allegro ; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont ; Paradise Regained ( b. 1608 )

" These included, for the Nazis, those suffering from " Congenital Mental Deficiency ", schizophrenia, " Manic-Depressive Insanity ", " Hereditary Epilepsy ", " Hereditary Chorea " ( Huntington ’ s ), Hereditary Blindness, Hereditary Deafness, " any severe hereditary deformity ", as well as " any person suffering from severe alcoholism ".

* Paul de Man, “ Heidegger ’ s Exegeses of Hölderlin .” Blindness and Insight.

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During the period 1996 to 1998, through a series of consultations between the Programme Advisory Group ( PAG ) of WHO, the Partnership Committee, and the Task Force, the document, " Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness ", was developed and adopted.

On September 3, 2008, Sheikh Mohammad also launched a new Ramadan initiative under the name " Noor Dubai ", aiming to help the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness ( IAPB ) in achieving its goals outlined in VISION 2020: the Right to Sight.

Saramago wrote a sequel to Blindness in 2004, titled Seeing ( Ensaio sobre a lucidez, literal English translation Essay on lucidity ), which has also been translated into English.

Kimura also voiced Master Tiger in the Japanese dub of Kung Fu Panda and appears in Blindness as the First Blind Man's Wife.

Tenzer was also president of the board member for Fight for Sight / National Council to Combat Blindness ( NCCB ), based in New York City.

Metropolitan Alexis Healing the Tatar Queen Taidula from Blindness, Yakov Kapkov ( 1816 – 54 ).

Metropolitan Alexis Healing the Tatar Queen Taidula from Blindness while Janibeg Looks on, Yakov Kapkov ( 1816-54 ). Metropolitan Alexis healing Jani Beg's wife from blindness.

Dante and Virgil visiting the Envious Men struck with Blindness and Euripides writing his Tragedies are now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon.

Her most notable roles include Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ), Debby Miller in the HBO miniseries Hysterical Blindness ( 2002 ), and Beatrix Kiddo in Tarantino's Kill Bill films ( 2003 / 2004 ).

* A National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness was established ( 1950 ).

Legislation enacted during 1948 made NIH into a plural " Institutes " by adding a National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Microbiological Institute ( predecessor to the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Institute ), and the National Institute of Experimental Biology and Medicine ( renamed the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases in 1950 ), followed by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness ( 1950 ) and a 500-bed Clinical Center to link bench research with patient care ( 1953 ).

Mansfield's work has featured in various TV productions, Ads and movies: Earth Girls Are Easy 1988 ( Geena Davis, Jim Carrey, Jeff Goldblum ), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion 1997 ( Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow ), Hysterical Blindness 2002 ( Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis ).

Blindness can result from damage to the optical pathway ( cornea, aqueous humor, crystalline lens, and vitreous ).

He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.

Another type of data that requires novel informatics development is the analysis of lesions found to be recurrent among many tumors

( The statement that Israel has a certain period of peace after each judge is a recurrent theme )

A recurrent theme is the reification of concepts, and the subsequent return to the Buddhist middle way.

Recent research is exploring the link between sexual partner treatment and eradication of recurrent cases of BV.

A recurrent criticism of inflation is that the invoked inflation field does not correspond to any known physical field, and that its potential energy curve seems to be an ad hoc contrivance to accommodate almost any data we could get.

Furthermore, demand in the developing world for improved educational access is not as high as one would expect as governments avoid the recurrent costs involved and there is economic pressure on those parents who prefer their children making money in the short term over any long-term benefits of education.

Evolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.

Epilepsy is characterized by a long term risk of recurrent seizures.

On very poor soils, and especially where fire is a recurrent phenomenon, woody savannas develop ( see ' sparse trees and parkland ').

A recurrent source of conflict on Gamma World is the rivalry among the " Cryptic Alliances ", semi-secret societies whose ideological agendas — usually verging on monomania — often bring them into conflict with the rest of the Gamma World.

In mammals, the left recurrent laryngeal nerve is longer than the right ; in the giraffe it is over longer.

Recurrent mild hypoglycemia may fit a reactive hypoglycemia pattern, but this is also the peak age for idiopathic postprandial syndrome, and recurrent " spells " in this age group can be traced to orthostatic hypotension or hyperventilation as often as demonstrable hypoglycemia.

In cases of recurrent hypoglycemia with severe symptoms, the best method of excluding dangerous conditions is often a diagnostic fast.

Surgery ( thyroidectomy to remove the whole thyroid or a part of it ) is not extensively used because most common forms of hyperthyroidism are quite effectively treated by the radioactive iodine method, and because there is a risk of also removing the parathyroid glands, and of cutting the recurrent laryngeal nerve, making swallowing difficult, and even simply generalized staphylococcal infection as with any major surgery.

One of the most obvious examples is the recurrent depiction of twins such as the Indic Asvins ' horsemen ,' the Greek horsemen Castor and Pollux, the legendary Anglo-Saxon settlers Horsa and Hengist [...] or the Irish twins of Macha, born after she had completed a horse race.

a long civil war and recurrent drought in the hinterlands have resulted in increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences ; desertification ; pollution of surface and coastal waters ; elephant poaching for ivory is a problem

* The largest expenditure for Nevis, approximately 29 percent of the Nevis Island Administration's recurrent budget, is education and health services, but the Nevis Island Legislature has no power to legislate over these two areas.

RS Ophiuchi is part of a class called recurrent novae, whose brightness increase at irregular intervals by hundreds of times in a period of just a few days.

* Sexual Sadism: the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in which the pain or humiliation of a person is sexually exciting.

* Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activities, or who is engaging in activities usually considered to be of a private nature.