Saturday, January 4, 2025

Nychtoprism nychtalopia

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Nychtroprism nychtalopia  




Nyctalopia  

comes to us from the Latin word nyctalops, which means "suffering from night blindness." It is ultimately derived from the Greek word nyktalops, which was formed by combining the word for "night" ("nyx") with the words for "blind" and "eye" ("alaos" and "ōps," respectively). English speakers have been using "nyctalopia" to refer to reduced vision in faint light or at night since the 17th century. We added the somewhat more pedestrian "night blindness" to the lexicon in the 18th century. 


Nyctitropism  

is a sleep-like movement in plants where parts of the plant assume different positions at night than during the day. It's characterized by a response to a stimulus that comes from one direction. The word comes from the International Scientific Vocabulary words nyct- and -tropism. 

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