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Examples:Cytomegalovirus retinitis, a disease of the retina that can lead blindness—"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus—Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans—night blindness (dialect)—white cane (used by the blind)—guide dog (for the blind)—Blind carbon copy (for email)—double-blind (scientific experiment)—the whole elephant (i.e. not the small parts felt by the proverbial blind feelers)—Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)—touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)—revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas—Heixiazi (black blind man) Island—Louis Braille (1809-1852), the inventor of the Braille alphabet for the blind—be deaf and blind [idiom.]— |