Leber’s disease

a hereditary visual disorder characterized by slowly progressive optic atrophy with normal peripheral vision but blind areas of the retina toward the center. The genetic defect is transmitted by females, but males are most often affected, with symptoms beginning around the third decade of life. Also called Leber’s optic atrophy. See also amaurosis. [Theodor Leber (1840–1917), German ophthalmologist]

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