Visual impairment (or vision impairment) is vision loss (of a person) to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive correction, medication, or surgery. [ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8727-6592 ]
Synonyms: Impaired vision Poor vision Visual impairment Loss of eyesight
Term information
- SNOMEDCT_US:246635007
- SNOMEDCT_US:7973008
- UMLS:C0042798
- SNOMEDCT_US:397540003
- UMLS:C3665347
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Term relations
- has part some (
decreased process quality and
characteristic of some visual perception and
has modifier some abnormal)