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The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.
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- Amaurosis
- Bilateral Blindness
- Blindness, Acquired
- Blindness, Bilateral
- Blindness, Complete
- Blindness, Hysterical
- Blindness, Legal
- Blindness, Monocular
- Blindness, Transient
- Blindness, Unilateral
- Sudden Visual Loss
- Unilateral Blindness
- Acquired Blindness
- Amauroses
- Bilateral Blindnesses
- Complete Blindness
- Hysterical Blindness
- Legal Blindness
- Monocular Blindness
- Sudden Visual Losses
- Transient Blindness
- Visual Loss, Sudden
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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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- National Library of Medicine. Blindness. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001766. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001766
- Blindness. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness
- Blindness. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10874