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What is a xerophthalmia?

What is a xerophthalmia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ophthalmology) A condition due to a deficiency of vitamin A where the conjunctiva and cornea become dry. The condition starts with conjunctival xerosis and night blindness and progresses to corneal xerosis and, later, a severe condition called keratomalacia.
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In the early 1990s, results from observational studies showed an increased mortality among children with clinical xerophthalmia.
Prolonged lack of vitamin A leads to deterioration of the eye tissue through progressive keratinization of the cornea, a condition known as xerophthalmia.
Although xerophthalmia is seldom encountered in countries where dairy products are readily available, it is common among poor children in Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines, and occurs in some parts of Africa.
This product has lost most of its vitamins A and D, which are needed to ward off xerophthalmia and rickets.
A guide to their use in the treatment and prevention of vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia.
Night blindness is an early sign of vitamin A deficiency, followed by abnormal dryness of the eye and ultimately scarring of the cornea, a condition known as xerophthalmia.

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