visual impairment
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a word derived from
visually impaired.
visually impairedadjective(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