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scot(o)-2

Darkness.

Greek skotos, darkness.

This combining form is particularly associated with human vision, as in scotopic, relating to or denoting vision in dim light; and scotoma, a partial loss of vision or blind spot in an otherwise normal visual field. In biology or animal husbandry, a scotophase is an artificially induced period of darkness. Scotophobia is fear of the dark.

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