Meaning | (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred. |
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Synonyms | nearsightedness, shortsightedness |
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Category | ophthalmology | The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases |
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Broader | ametropia | (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia |
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Opposite | hyperopia, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, farsightedness, longsightedness | Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects |
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Spanish | miopía |
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Catalan | miopia |
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Adjectives | myopic | unable to see distant objects clearly |
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