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phormium (iou) and blindness, cortical (medicine)


phormium (iou)



phormium noun. E19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Greek phormion dim. of phormos mat, basket, in ref. to the use made of the fibres.]
Either of two tall New Zealand evergreen plants constituting the genus Phormium, of the agave family, which have tough sword-shaped leaves in tufts at the base and panicles of dull red or yellow flowers; esp. New Zealand flax, P. tenax.

blindness, cortical (medicine)


blindness, cortical
Total loss of vision in all or part of the visual field due to a lesion in the striate area, characterised by the patient's subjective unawareness of his disability and the absence of cortical functions of vision, with the subcortical functions intact.