progressive retinal atrophy

progressive retinal atrophy
any of a group of hereditary retinal diseases of dogs characterized by progressive dysplasia or degeneration of the retinal rods or cones. Affected animals first have night blindness and then increasingly lose their daytime vision; some develop cataracts.

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