nearsightedness
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- n (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
- In myopia (nearsightedness) the eyeball is usually long from front to back; in far-sighted people it is often short.
- Here's help: the new Verisyse corrective lens, which treats nearsightedness too severe for laser surgery to fix.
- In nearsightedness, light is focused in front of the retina instead of on it.