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Blindness

"Blindness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Blindness" by people in this website by year, and whether "Blindness" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2012 and 2014
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