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myopia
[ mahy-oh-pee-uh ]
noun
- Ophthalmology. a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina, objects being seen distinctly only when near to the eye; nearsightedness ( hyperopia ).
- lack of foresight or discernment; obtuseness.
- narrow-mindedness; intolerance.
myopia
/ maɪˈəʊpɪə; maɪˈɒpɪk /
noun
- inability to see distant objects clearly because the images are focused in front of the retina; short-sightedness
myopia
/ mī-ō′pē-ə /
- A defect of the eye that causes light to focus in front of the retina instead of directly on it, resulting in an inability to see distant objects clearly. Myopia is often caused by an elongated eyeball or a misshapen lens.
- Also called nearsightedness
- Compare hyperopia
Notes
Derived Forms
- myˈopically, adverb
- myopic, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of myopia1
Word History and Origins
Origin of myopia1
Example Sentences
But not all political action fueled by moral myopia is wrong.
But while this tension is old, American Jewish groups did not always respond to it with the moral myopia they display today.
Ezra wonders why the GOP would embrace what he deems "ratio-myopia."
The police barricades throughout lower Manhattan are a rebuke to the larger lessons of 9/11, a sign of civic myopia.
Beltway myopia and overheated rhetoric could trigger another worldwide credit crisis, warns Zachary Karabell.
The examination showed for the right eye hypermetropia 1·5, for the left myopia 3·5 D.; full acuity of vision on both sides.
Therefore we see the same form of squint arise less often in emmetropia (see Case 45) when childhood is past, than in myopia.
Full visual acuity on both sides—in the first examination slight myopia - ·75 D. is specified, afterwards emmetropia.
Those cases deserve special consideration in which emmetropia is present in one eye, in the other myopia.
Slight degrees of one-sided myopia reconcile themselves with the continuance of a normal binocular act of vision.
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