Vision loss or visual loss is the absence of vision where it existed before, which can happen either acutely (i.e. abruptly) or chronically (i.e. over a long period of time).
Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision and vision loss based on visual acuity. Early editions of the World Health Organization's ICD described a simple distinction between "legally sighted" and "legally blind". The ICD-9 released in 1979 introduc...
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Organizations in this sector:
- National Federation of the Blind ,
- American Foundation for the Blind ,
- National Library for the Blind ,
- Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness ,
- American Council of the Blind ,
- International Blind Sport Federation ,
- Galloway's Society for the Blind ,
- Books for the Blind ,
- Washington Talking Book & Braille Library ,
- United States Association of Blind Athletes
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Quotations About This Subject:
- We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty. ,
- A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. ,
- It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers ,
- To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. ,
- There's none so blind as they that won't see. ,
- Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love. ,
- What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. ,
- My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. ,
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Also known as:
- Blindness,
- Visual loss,
- Lost of vision,
- Loss of sight,
- Blind Vision,
- Loss of vision
