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HEMIANOPSIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hemianopsia mean?
• HEMIANOPSIA (noun)
The noun HEMIANOPSIA has 1 sense:
1. blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes
Familiarity information: HEMIANOPSIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
hemianopia; hemianopsia
Hypernyms ("hemianopsia" is a kind of...):
vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)
Context examples
A frequently associated physical finding is bitemporal hemianopsia which may progress to further visual loss.
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