Visual impairment
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. [ ]
Term info
Visual impairment
- Impaired vision
- Loss of eyesight
- Poor vision
- Visual impairment
hposlim_core
HP:0007758, HP:0000516, HP:0007860, HP:0007983, HP:0000566
human_phenotype
HP:0000505
Term relations
- has_part some (
decreased process quality and
inheres in some visual perception and
has modifier some abnormal)