What is "retinitis"

Usage examples of "retinitis".

She has a genetic disease, retinitis pigmentosa, and she is blind from it.

He was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, which inevitably destroys eyesight.

Despite being stricken with retinitis pigmentosa in 1963 and going blind a decade later, Paramount appointed him supervising art director for features, a job he held until his retirement in 1969.

Batz, on the coast of France, where Voisin found five marriages of first cousins and thirty-one of second cousins, without a single case of mental defect, congenital deafness, albinism, retinitis pigmentosa or malformation?

In retinitis pigmentosa the peripheral or extramacular portions of the retina are subject to a pigmentary degeneration that renders them insensitive to light, and patients so afflicted are consequently incapable of seeing at night as well as others.

It was more usual for retinitis pigmentosa, said Mandarax, son of Gokubi, to let its hosts and hostesses see the world clearly for as long as thirty years sometimes.

Over the last few months she'd started to believe that, while the retinitis pigmentosa had robbed her of any semblance of night sight, sound and smell were beginning to compensate.

Not when retinitis pigmentosa had forced her to quit a job she'd both loved and excelled at.

The retinitis pigmentosa that had forced her from the Metro Police and denied her the night had been reversed when Henry'd changed her.

Cerebral palsy -- a spastic -- with a heart defect, and retinitis pigmentosa.

Cerebral palsy--a spastic--with a heart defect, and retinitis pigmentosa.