Sentence examples for of total blindness from inspiring English sources

After several minutes of total blindness, we finally saw a pinprick of brightness ahead, which soon became a stream of light that led us to a magnificent cove.

Mann was certain that it was what he had been dreading for a long time: the ulcer on his cornea had perforated causing the eye to collapse; it was the start of total blindness.

It is responsible for an estimated 30,000 new cases of legal blindness annually in the USA [1, 2] and accounts for about 10 15% of all cases of total blindness in the country [1, 3, 4].

The less prevalent wet form of AMD (exudative, neovascular) is associated with a majority of total blindness incidents.

It is the third most common global cause of blindness, accounting for approximately 8.7% of total blindness, and the primary cause of blindness in developed countries.

Among all factors leading to blindness, cataracts, which are completely curable by surgery but not preventable, are the leading cause of blindness and account for 51% of total blindness cases [ 1].

Few of these conditions, however, lead to total blindness, and many of them have some form of available treatment.

Equally, imagine my delight once the work (which has to be executed in a state of blithe unawareness akin to total blindness) was done, to find the play inhabited not only by a clever, sad old man and a bright, ethereal young woman, but also by their counterparts, living more prosaic lives, disarmingly close to a life I might have lived.

Most mutations responsible for the RP phenotype selectively affect rod photoreceptors, nevertheless cones undergo degeneration secondary to the loss of rods, often leading to total blindness [1], [2].

"Even more devastating, the leaky vessels form scar tissue, which pulls the retina off the back of the eye and leads to total blindness," Smith says.

The two types of Cockers are susceptible to a specific type of PRA called Progressive rod-cone degeneration (PRCD), symptoms include night blindness leading to total blindness between the ages of three and five.