| 单词 | hen blindness |
| 释义 | > as lemmashen blindness hen blindness n. [after Russian kurjač′ja slepota night-blindness (apparently first attested slightly later in this sense: 1798 or earlier; now usually kurinaja slepota)] now rare the disorder of human vision characterized by abnormally reduced visual acuity in dim light (which is typical of hens and most other birds); = night-blindness n. ΚΠ 1795 Med. Commentaries for 1794 Decade 2nd 9 284 (heading) Observations on the Kuritsha Slepota, or Hen Blindness of Russia. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 204 Hens..cannot see to pick up small grains in the dusk of the evening, and so employ this time in going to roost: on which account the disease is sometimes called hen-blindness. 1991 R. Rubin tr. D. Omer Teheran Operation xii. 168 Whenever I looked at them I recalled the ‘hen blindness’ from which the prisoners in the Russian internment camps had suffered. < as lemmas |
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