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Shridhar Chillal (born 29 January 1937) is an Indian man from the city of Pune, who held the world record for the longest fingernails ever reached on a single hand, with a combined length of 909.6 centimeters (358.1 inches). Chillal's longest single nail was his thumbnail, which measured 197.8 centimeters (77.87 inches).
Nyctalopia (/ ˌ n ɪ k t ə ˈ l oʊ p i ə /; from Ancient Greek νύκτ-(núkt-) 'night' ἀλαός (alaós) 'blind, invisible' and ὄψ (óps) 'eye'), [1] also called night-blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light. It is a symptom of several eye diseases.
Favre et al. describes 2 French teenage siblings of the opposite sex. Out of the 2, the brother (who was 16 years old) was affected the most. He was said to have difficulties walking inside his mother's apartment as soon as night fell from childhood (nightblindness), his visual acuity was 0.3 in his left eye and 0.4 in his right eye.
Bardet–Biedl syndrome is a pleiotropic disorder with variable expressivity and a wide range of clinical variability observed both within and between families. The most common clinical features are rod–cone dystrophy, with childhood-onset night-blindness followed by increasing visual loss; postaxial polydactyly; truncal obesity that manifests during infancy and remains problematic ...
Nail clubbing - nails that curve down around the fingertips with nailbeds that bulge is associated with oxygen deprivation and lung, heart, or liver disease. Koilonychia - spooning, or nails that grow upwards. Associated with iron-deficiency anaemia or vitamin B 12 deficiency. [citation needed] Pitting of the nails is associated with psoriasis.
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(H53.5) Color blindness — the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish (H53.5) Achromatopsia / Maskun — a low cone count or lack of function in cone cells (H53.6) Nyctalopia (Night blindness) — a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in the dark
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