hypermetropia

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hypermetropia

[‚hī·pər·mə′trō·pē·ə]

(medicine)

A defect of vision resulting from too short an eyeball so that unaccommodated rays focus behind the retina. Also known as farsightedness; hyperopia.

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3% had hypermetropia and the remaining 40% had myopia while out of 49.

Refractive errors among school-going children in Hyderabad

5 D were categorized as hypermetropia, and patients with SER [greater than or equal to]-0.

Are the biometric parameters predictors of refractive and accommodative status of the eye?

Patients with high myopia and hypermetropia were excluded from the study.

A clinical study of partial occlusion therapy in management of amblyopia in children aged 5 years to 15 years

Unlike low order aberrations (myopia, hypermetropia, simple astigmatism) they cannot be corrected with spectacles or contact lenses.

Effect of wavefront optimized LASIK on higher order aberrations in myopic patients

1) While its most frequent application is for visual improvement in myopia, lens designs to enable the correction of low hypermetropia, astigmatism and presbyopia are also commercially available.

Orthokeratology: a clinical overview--part one

Myopia was the most common refractive error 44% followed by hypermetropia 8%.

FREQUENCY OF DECREASED VISION AND OCULAR DISEASES IN SCHOOL CHILDREN AT BANNU

17) observed a significant increase in ACD after uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery in patients who had a tendency towards hypermetropia preoperatively (median preoperative SE was +0.

Changes in anterior chamber depth after Phacoemulsification in Pseudoexfoliative eyes and their effect on accuracy of intraocular lens power calculation

Astigmatism (48%) was the most common refractive error followed by myopia (34%) and hypermetropia was the least common with a prevalence of 18% (Table 5).

A study of prevalence of ocular morbidities in school going children in a rural District of Manipur

Hypermetropia: Visual acuity <N5 in any eye for near vision, if improved after pinhole testing, was taken as hypermetropia

Prevalence of refractive error among school-going children of Imphal, Manipur

reported that high hypermetropia was not risk factor for binocular vision in accommodative esotropia.

Prognostic factors for stereopsis in refractive accommodative esotropia

Of the estimated 26,350,000 adults with REs, crude prevalence of myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism in adults stand at 36.

Time to declare ophthalmology an independent discipline by initiating Bachelor of Ophthalmic Surgery programme

42-44) Here, despite the lens becoming more convex with age, (45) rather than an expected shift towards myopia, there is a tendency towards hypermetropia.