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Nyctalopia (/ ˌ n ɪ k t ə ˈ l oʊ p i ə /; from Ancient Greek νύκτ-(núkt-) 'night' ἀλαός (alaós) 'blind, invisible' and ὄψ (óps) 'eye'), [1] also called night-blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light. It is a symptom of several eye diseases.
Night blindness, on the other hand, which is also referred to as nyctalopia, is a condition in which someone has extreme difficulty or loses the ability to see in the dark or in dimly lit areas.
Night blindness can be caused by a number of factors the most common of which being vitamin A deficiency. If detected early enough nyctalopia can be reversed and visual function can be regained; however; prolonged vitamin A deficiency can lead to permanent visual loss if left untreated.
The complete form of congenital stationary night blindness is due to the absence of nyctalopin. [16] This absence is due to a mutation involving an 85 base pair deletion. [ 17 ] In humans, more than 30 mutations are found in the NYX gene and most of them have an impact either on the tertiary structure of the LRR domains of nyctalopin or to ...
Looking west across West 20th St at Heiskell Library for the Blind on a cloudy morning. The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, also known as the Heiskell Library and formerly as the Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and the New York Free Circulating Library for the Blind is a branch of New York Public Library (NYPL) on West 20th Street in the ...
The word hemeralopia comes from the Greek ημέρα hemera, "day", and αλαός alaos, "blindness". Hemera was the Greek goddess of day, and Nyx was the goddess of night. Hemeralopia has been used to describe night blindness rather than day blindness by many non-English-speaking doctors, causing confusion. [1]
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