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Recent Examples of hyperopia
Untreated hyperopia can lead to the development of a lazy eye (amblyopia) or additional vision loss.
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Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
Some people with hyperopia can have their vision surgically corrected.
—Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
Contact lenses can be worn to correct a variety of vision conditions, such as myopia, or nearsightedness; hyperopia, or farsightedness; and astigmatism.
—Tiffany Yannetta, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2018
Of the overall cases, 69 percent arose from simple uncorrected refractive errors, which include myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism (blurry vision up close, far away or both).
—By Sue Arrowsmith, miamiherald, 24 July 2017
Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
Some people with hyperopia can have their vision surgically corrected.
—Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
Contact lenses can be worn to correct a variety of vision conditions, such as myopia, or nearsightedness; hyperopia, or farsightedness; and astigmatism.
—Tiffany Yannetta, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2018
Of the overall cases, 69 percent arose from simple uncorrected refractive errors, which include myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism (blurry vision up close, far away or both).
—By Sue Arrowsmith, miamiherald, 24 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyperopia
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Nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism are other forms of refractive errors.Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2024
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Benefits of eye surgery include improvement of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
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When Readers Aren’t Enough Not all eye symptoms people experience in their 40s can be attributed to presbyopia.Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024
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This vision change, called presbyopia, explains why many people in their 40s and beyond need reading glasses.8 Cataracts—a clouding of the lens—also become more common with age, which may lead to the need for cataract surgery.Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
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Is there some idea why this myopia epidemic is happening?Gary Stix, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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In the myopia that results, especially in the face of an uncertain world—where crisis after crisis pops up like the old arcade game of Whack-a-Mole—the temptation is to make changes based on flitting and unknowable assumptions that do absolutely nothing to determine success over the long term.James Berman, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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More than 40% of Americans are estimated to have myopia, also known as nearsightedness.Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
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And that's important, because the number of kids with nearsightedness – or myopia – has been growing rapidly in the U.S., and in many other parts of the world.Maria Godoy, NPR, 13 May 2024
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John was later derailed by astigmatism, which also required surgery.Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 26 Apr. 2024
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Nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism are other forms of refractive errors.Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2024
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One of his conditions, strabismus,has also been reported by researchers to be behind the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, allowing the painter to perceive the world differently and facilitating his accurate depiction of three-dimensional objects on flat surfaces.Maya Davis, CNN, 4 Aug. 2024
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The earlier strabismus is treated, the better, Flanary says.Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 30 July 2024
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“Hyperopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperopia. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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