hyperopia

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Recent Examples of hyperopia Millions more are expected to experience worsening vision due to myopia (nearsightedness) or hyperopia (farsightedness), conditions that can be fixed with glasses, contacts or surgery. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025 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
Noun
  • For example, bifocals correct both nearsightedness and farsightedness with the same lens.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Solutions for Complex Vision Problems Traditional contact lenses primarily correct vision problems, such as near-sightedness and farsightedness.
    Malana VanTyler, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • What are the early signs of presbyopia?
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For example, those with presbyopia can opt for multifocal lenses.
    Malana VanTyler, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the future, simple eyedrops could be used to delay the onset of nearsightedness in children, which in turn can reduce those risks, Walline said.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Photo-Illustration by Newsweek/Getty Although prolonged screen usage isn't directly linked to a higher risk of serious eye conditions, it's increasingly associated with higher rates of myopia, or nearsightedness.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Clinical trial data showed that the Stellest lenses can slow myopia progression by 71% on average over the course of 24 months, compared with single vision control lenses, according to the FDA.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The myopia required to derive true meaning from such a thing—barely more sophisticated than phrenology—is staggering.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Myopia is when someone can see objects close-up but their vision becomes blurred when looking at objects farther away, and astigmatism is a condition in which either the eye’s cornea or lens has a different shape than normal, causing blurred vision.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, people with astigmatism benefit from toric lenses.
    Malana VanTyler, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Barrel Cards The barrel card exercise can help improve symptoms of strabismus (crossed eyes).
    Laura Schober, Health, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Along with numerous other broken bones, as well as the psychological and physiological trauma of his recurring episodes of diplopia, his entire career looked to be in jeopardy.
    Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
  • Understandably, strabismus is frequently accompanied by diplopia, or double vision.
    Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017

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