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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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- 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.
- n. inability to see clearly in bright light
- 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.
- 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.
- n. inability to see clearly in bright light