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Myopia

My-o′pi-a

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Noun.
[NL. See
Myope
.]
(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

myopia

English

Noun

myopia (countable and uncountable, plural myopias)

  1. (pathology) A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
  2. A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.

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Portuguese

Noun

myopia f (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of miopia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).