blindness
失明,盲目性,盲人,失明症
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- : the inability to see; the condition of having severely impaired or absolutely no sense of sight: Patients are first asked if their blindness is congenital or the result of injury or disease.
- : an unwillingness or inability to perceive or understand; lack of judgment; ignorance: Your blindness to this behavior has allowed his anxiety to worsen.
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Examples
One, a treatment for blindness, in which viruses carry a new gene to the retina, costs $425,000 per eye.
Stock buyers were essentially flying blind while buying into companies, which some investors were more than willing to do, but that blindness limited the market demand for secondary shares significantly.
Many of the concerning products are labeled as containing safe alcohols but actually contained methanol, an extremely poisonous form of alcohol associated with incorrectly distilled liquors that can cause blindness and even death.
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, leading cause of non-trauma limb amputation, leading cause of kidney failure.
He wrote, “Not only are we blind to the obvious, but we are blind to our blindness.”
A new Australian study, too, has consumers worried that Viagra could cause blindness and other vision problems.
They had overcome everything from religious persecution to blindness to crushing family responsibilities.
Throughout True Detective, Pizzolatto has linked blindness—an unseeing state—to the victims of the Carcosa cult.
Bacterial pathogens include gonorrhea (yes) which can cause blindness in a matter of hours, and chlamydia.
Part of the explanation for this dismal record of non-rescue is our capacity for willed blindness.
From that region they issue to inflict diseases, especially and deafness.