noun

• Blindness over half the field of vision.

  ‘A 35-year-old woman was referred to our neurosurgery department with symptoms of hemianopsia, diabetes insipidus, amenorrhea, and a presumptive diagnosis of pituitary tumor.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Interruption of one optic tract causes total blindness in the opposite half of the visual field - hemianopia.’
  • ‘In hemianopsia persons complain of blindness in one eye.’
  • ‘My main symptoms are rapid onset aura with teichopsia, fortification spectra, unilateral temporal hemianopia and scintillating scotoma, in varying degrees of influence.’
  • ‘The test showed a complete left homonymous hemianopsia.’