myopia
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(mi-OH-pee-uh), nearsightedness. Focusing defect in which the eye is overpowered. Light rays coming from a distant object are brought to focus before reaching the retina. Requires a minus lens correction to "weaken" the eye optically and permit clear distance vision.
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myopia
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Commonly known as nearsightedness. Myopia is a refractive error in which the light rays focus in front of the retina, producing blurry distance vision but clearer up close vision. It is now believed that myopia is partly hereditary; you
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myopia
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Also known as Nearsightedness. This results from varying-shaped eyeballs that cause light to focus behind the retina.
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