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visual impairment

  • a word derived from visually impaired.
    visually impaired
    adjective
    (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a disability.

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Together, these disorders affect about 200 million people worldwide and rank among the leading causes of visual impairment and blindness.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

The young singer from Michigan, who shared her experience living with a visual impairment, “gave her blood” in her performance, Gellar said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2026

Blind cricket uses a plastic ball with metal bearings that makes a sound, and players are classified depending on their level of visual impairment.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2025

County child with a visual impairment regardless of income.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

Complete interruption of the nutritional stream would be speedy death; partial interruption may be held responsible for most of the visual impairment and pain of glaucoma.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance

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