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单词 nyctalopy
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nyctalopyn.

Forms: 1600s nyctalopie, 1800s nyctalopy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nyctalopia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin nyctalopia nyctalopia n.; compare -y suffix3. Compare nyctalops n. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (ni·ktăloupi) /ˈnɪktələʊpɪ/.
Chiefly Medicine. Obsolete.
= nyctalopia n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness > night blindness
night-blindness1625
nyctalops1661
nyctalopy1661
nyctalopia1684
day sight1811
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 110 The liver cureth the nyctalopie, the eyes being washed with the decoction.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Nyctalopy, a disease or indisposition of the eye, in which a person sees better by night than by day.
1875 tr. E. Swedenborg True Christian Relig. 247 Visionary, and preposterous faith, which is an appearance of the false as if it were true from ingenious confirmation, may be compared with the disease of the eye which is called nyctalopy, which is seeing in darkness, from fatuous light.
1879 C. T. Lewis & C. Short Lat. Dict. Nyctalopia, the disease of one who cannot see in the twilight, nyctalopy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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