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Night Blindness - Glossary

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Vitamin A: A substance used in cancer prevention; it belongs to the family of drugs called retinoids.

Retinoid: Vitamin A or a vitamin A-like compound.

Retina: Light sensitive membrane at the back of the eye. Light is focused onto this membrane and the retina then transmits this information to the brain as impulses which the brain interprets as sight.

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