| NOUN | state | ametropia | (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia |
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| Meaning | (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia. | |
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| Category | ophthalmology | The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases |
| Narrower | astigmatism, astigmia | (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea |
| hyperopia, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, farsightedness, longsightedness | Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | |
| myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness | (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability | |
| Broader | visual impairment, visual defect, vision defect, visual disorder | impairment of the sense of sight |
| Spanish | ametropía | |
| Catalan | ametropia | |
| Adjectives | ametropic | of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina |
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