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Myopsis
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My-op′sis
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] fly + [GREEK] sight.]
(Med.)
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myopsis
myopsis
English
Noun
myopsis (uncountable)
- (medicine, obsolete) The appearance of muscae volitantes.
- 1854, William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones, A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye (page 909)
- When the sight is perfect, and still more when it is presbyopic, the pupil will have frequent occasion to contract, in aiding the person to see near objects more distinctly, and thus an habitual degree of myopsis may be produced.
- 1854, William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones, A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye (page 909)