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Myopia   Listen
noun
Myopia  n.  (Med.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.





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"Myopia" Quotes from Famous Books



... following the revolution, there were those in the east, and especially in New England, who suffered from myopia. They utterly failed to see the future of the republic, or the importance of holding the western country. To them, such men as Harrod and Kenton, Logan and Boone, were "lawless borderers" and willful aggressors on the rights of the red man. And yet, back of the crowning ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce


Words linked to "Myopia" :   ametropia, myopic, nearsightedness, ophthalmology, shortsightedness, hyperopia


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