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n. - Partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye.

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  • Haas was born with a kind of degenerative blindness called Leber's congenital amaurosis.
  • Both it and Succory, if used in excess as a medicine, will bring about amaurosis, or loss of visual power in
  • About 2,000 people in the U.S. have Leber's congenital amaurosis No. 2, caused when a child inherits a certain flawed gene from both parents.
  • Simple glaucoma, 104 cases; improvement, O. 96 per cent; condition as before, 10.5 per cent; deterioration, 52 per cent; amaurosis, 36.5 per cent.
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