BLINDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blinding mean? 

• BLINDING (adjective)
  The adjective BLINDING has 1 sense:

1. shining intensely

  Familiarity information: BLINDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLINDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shining intensely

Synonyms:

blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary

Context example:

the glaring sun

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

 Context examples 

A coded value specifying the type of blinding that is used for the trial.

(Blinding Schema Code, NCI Thesaurus)

But a new study shows that they also accelerate damage wrought by blinding eye disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa.

(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)

My eyes will be blinding for the good of others, and yours preparing by rest for future mischief.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The name of a code list that contains terms to define the type of blinding for the trial.

(CDISC SDTM Trial Blinding Schema Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The test code for an individual characteristic of a clinical trial, e.g. description of trial design, trial blinding schema, and primary objective of trial.

(CDISC SDTM Trial Summary Parameter Terminology by Code, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

On they swept over the level and up to the slope, ere they met the blinding storm of the English arrows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This will be drawn from a coded list of terms that define the blinding type.

(Interventional Study Protocol Version Blinding Schema Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The test name for an individual characteristic of a clinical trial, e.g. description of trial design, trial blinding schema, and primary objective of trial.

(CDISC SDTM Trial Summary Parameter Terminology by Name, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Material stretches away from the blinding brightness of the galactic plane itself, becoming more clearly observable against the darker background of the cosmos.

(A Galaxy on the Edge, ESO)

Retinitis pigmentosa is an incurable and unpreventable blinding eye disease that affects 1 in 4,000 people.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)