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| light rays do not converge at a single point because of the distortion in the lenses |
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| there is a decreased acuity of vision in one eye |
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| legally blind is visual acuity of less than 200 |
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| legally blind is visual acuity of less than ?#? |
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| decrease of the eye that increases intraocular fluid pressure |
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| damage to the macula of the retina that causes blindness in the center of the field of vision. |
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| a lack of awareness of one side of the environment. Left neglect is common among people who have a right cerebrovascular accident. The person bumps into things on the left; is unaware of items on the left side of the table. Unlike other kinds of visual function problems, a person with visual neglect can't see objects in the left half of their visual field AND loses the awareness that there is ANYTHING ON the left side of their body. |
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| loss of visual function in 1 of the 4 field quadrants of the eye |
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| loss of the outer half of the visual field from one eye and the inner half of the visual field of the other eye |
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| circumferential blindness |
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| no vision around the circumference of each eye’s visual field |
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| loss of the outer vision of both eyes |
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| Homonymous inferior quadrantanopsia |
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| loss of vision in right or left lower quadrant of both eyes |
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| Visual spatial inattention |
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| visual neglect of particular quadrant(s) of the eye. It is inattention due to a brain dysfunction, rather than a vision loss due to damage of the eye |
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| prescription lenses or laser surgery |
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| treatment for myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and legal blindness |
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| patch one eye for short periods of time to strengthen lazy eye |
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| wear alternating eye patch |
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| treatment for double vision |
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