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A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

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  1. n. A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.
  2. n. inability to see clearly in bright light
  3. A word/disease">disease of the word/eyes">eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight. Note: Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, i. e., day blindness. See Nyctalopia.
  4. A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can seeclearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificiallight; day sight.
  5. n. inability to see clearly in bright light