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• n  a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45
• n  abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects
• n  seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing

• TODAY: Laser surgery or implants to correct near- and farsightedness TOMORROW: Permanent lens implants to correct vision while leaving the cornea intact.
• Nevertheless, very few ophthalmologists will undertake to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism (unequal eye images) by exercise; the practice is limited almost .
• Inside the cockpit, the 50-year-old commander, with glasses specially fitted into his helmet to correct the farsightedness of middle age, took over the controls for the final .

• presbyopia
• hyperopia
• hypermetropia
• hypermetropy
• longsightedness
• prevision
• foresight
• prospicience

• myopia

News & Articles

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• Vinod Khosla-backed smartphone diagnostic creating portable eye exam raises $2M
  A group of entrepreneurs who wants to make eye exams more accessible in developing countries has raised $2 million for a smartphone attachment that claims to diagnose nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, according to a Form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EyeNetra’s device, NETRA G, is based on technology developed in the [...]
  June 28, 2013 - MedCity News
• This New Contact Lens Basically Turns Your Eye Into a Telescope
  Contact lenses are great if your only issue is near or farsightedness, but for those struggling with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness among older adults, those flimsy little lenses ain't going to cut it—or at least not the kind of contact lenses you're used to. But soon, AMD-sufferers could see their vision vastly improving thanks to a slim, adjustable ...
  June 27, 2013 - Gizmodo

Quotes

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• Tony Blair in EUbusiness (press release)
  A huge task awaits him, but I know he has the necessary energy and farsightedness to tackle it with success,Blair said.
• Narendra Modi in Hindustan Times
  The decision of the UPA government lacks farsightedness,Modi said, adding that now the hosting of Commonwealth Games in 2010 will also come under clouds.
• Pope Benedict XVI in International Herald Tribune
  Forty years after its publication, that teaching not only shows itself to be unchanged in its truth, but it reveals the farsightedness with which the problem was tackled,Benedict said.