Myopia (medical condition): Short-sightedness often requiring glasses.
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Myopia: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred.
Source: WordNet 2.1
Myopia: a refractive error in which rays of light entering the eye parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the retina, as a result of the eyeball being too long from front to back; also called nearsightedness because the near point is less distant than it is in emmetropia with an equal amplitude of accommodation.
Source: Diseases Database
Myopia: a refractive error in which rays of light entering the eye parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the retina, as a result of the eyeball being too long from front to back; also called nearsightedness because the near point is less distant than it is in emmetropia with an equal amplitude of accommodation.
Source: CRISP
Myopia: A refractive error in which rays of light entering the EYE parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the RETINA when accommodation (ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR) is relaxed. This results from an overly curved CORNEA or from the eyeball being too long from front to back. It is also called nearsightedness.
Source: MeSH 2007
Myopia (medical condition): See Myopia (disease information).
»Introduction: Myopia
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»Treatments for Myopia
Myopia: Myopia is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
When the cornea is curved too much, or if the eye is too long, faraway objects will appear blurry because they are focused in front of the retina. This is called myopia, or nearsightedness. Myopia affects over 25 percent of all adult Americans. (Source: excerpt from Facts About the Cornea and Corneal Disease: NEI)
When the cornea is curved too much, or if the eye is too long, faraway objects will appear blurry because they are focused in front of the retina. This is called myopia, or nearsightedness. Myopia affects over 25 percent of all adult Americans. (Source: excerpt from Facts About the Cornea and Corneal Disease: NEI)
Myopia (symptom): Nearsightedness.
Myopia (symptom): When the cornea is curved too much, or if the eye is too long, faraway objects will appear blurry because they are focused in front of the retina. This is called myopia, or nearsightedness. Myopia affects over 25 percent of all adult Americans. (Source: excerpt from Facts About the Cornea and Corneal Disease: NEI)
Myopia (symptom): See Myopia (symptom information).
These medical disease topics may be related to Myopia:
Source: Diseases Database
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source - MeSH 2007
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Source - CRISP
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The following list attempts to classify Myopia into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: WordNet 2.1
Source: Diseases Database
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