English > ametropia: 1 sense > noun 1, stateMeaning | (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 |
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Narrower | astigmatism, astigmia | (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea |
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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 |
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Spanish | ametropía |
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Catalan | ametropia |
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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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