"Blindness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.
| Descriptor ID |
D001766
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.751.941.162 C11.966.075 C23.888.592.763.941.162
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blindness" by people in Profiles.
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Characterizing the Genetic Basis for Inherited Retinal Disease: Lessons Learned From the Foundation Fighting Blindness Clinical Consortium's Gene Poll. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2025 Feb 03; 66(2):12.
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Characterization of Vascular Morphology of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Indocyanine Green Angiography. J Vis Exp. 2023 08 11; (198).
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A Rare Case of Blindness Caused by Syphilis with Malignant Hypertensive Nephropathy. Intern Med. 2023 Nov 01; 62(21):3195-3201.
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Health information seeking in the digital age: a national survey of women with disabilities. Disabil Rehabil. 2023 08; 45(17):2751-2760.
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Advancing a Human Onchocerciasis Vaccine From Antigen Discovery to Efficacy Studies Against Natural Infection of Cattle With Onchocerca ochengi. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022; 12:869039.
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Hypnic Amaurosis Fugax. J Neuroophthalmol. 2022 03 01; 42(1):e357-e358.
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Multi-electrode stimulation evokes consistent spatial patterns of phosphenes and improves phosphene mapping in blind subjects. Brain Stimul. 2021 Sep-Oct; 14(5):1356-1372.
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Eye movements and the perceived location of phosphenes generated by intracranial primary visual cortex stimulation in the blind. Brain Stimul. 2021 Jul-Aug; 14(4):851-860.
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PHENOTYPIC HETEROGENEITY IN A FAMILY WITH X-LINKED FAMILIAL EXUDATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY WITH PREVENTION OF VISUAL LOSS IN AN AFFECTED MALE CHILD WITH LASER TREATMENT IN INFANCY. Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2021 May 01; 15(3):324-329.
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Re: Lum et?al.: Ocular injuries and blindness caused by crowd control measures in civil protests (Ophthalmology. 2020;127:1424-1425). Ophthalmology. 2021 03; 128(3):e15.