(n.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(2) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(3) The yield of such studies may be high for an understanding of such diseases as myopia, retinal detachment, and keratoconus.
(4) Myopia ranged from -1.0 D to -9.0 D. Forty-two eyes (53%) achieved uncorrected visual acuity (VA) of 1.0 or better and 73 eyes (92%) better than 0.5.
(5) A 69-year-old patient with high myopia was treated with retrobulbar steroid injections.
(6) We have reported the development of 1.6 diopters of myopia in a group of patients exposed to reptitive oxygen breathing at two atmospheres absolute pressure.
(7) The X-chromosomal form is frequently associated with myopia.
(8) The progress of 108 children who were identified by the vision screening programme in school as having defective vision (excluding those with puberty onset myopia) was reviewed.
(9) Extraordinarily wide angles were observed in all cases and myopia was a common refractive error.
(10) The Houston Myopia Control Study is a 3-year randomized clinical trial in which each of 213 myopic children was placed in either a single vision (standard treatment) group, a +1.00 D add treatment group, or a +2.00 D add treatment group, on the basis of a randomized procedure.
(11) The term "instrument myopia" means an accommodative effort caused by the view into the microscope.
(12) During the first month the mean myopia gradually increased to 0.12 D more myopia and increased linearly to 0.50 D more myopia at 3 months.
(13) Expansion was not related to laser wavelength, patient age, SRNV size, or degree of myopia.
(14) Young adulthood myopia progression also appeared to be accompanied by a slight tendency toward a with-the-rule astigmatic shift.
(15) This association is comparable with subretinal neovascularization in high myopia, angioid streaks, choroiditis and choroidal ruptures.
(16) After prophylactic scleroplasty for high complicated myopia the patient developed bilateral detachment of the retina.
(17) The implications of these findings are discussed with regard to both current models of accommodation-vergence interaction and the etiology of late-onset myopia.
(18) To improve scleroplasty efficacy in children at a high risk of postoperative progress of myopia the authors have developed a new surgical method involving increase of the transplant size and its preoperative treatment with a foamy composition intended for filling the body cavities.
(19) In the present study, close ophthalmologic examinations were performed on 11 patients with FCMD, and we found myopia, weakness of the orbicularis oculi, congenital nystagmus, cortical blindness, optic atrophy, chorioretinal degeneration, etc.
(20) If the high myopias and cone dysfunction are considered to be parts of the same syndrome, the heredity could be x-chromosomal recessive or autosomal recessive.
Myopic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or affected with, or characterized by, myopia; nearsighted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
(2) Fifty-five myopic naval personnel with no previous contact lens experience were put through a three-week study using these contact lenses.
(3) A recipient cornea gradually developed wrinkling and opacification in Bowman's layer following an uneventful myopic epikeratoplasty.
(4) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
(5) Each of them is an apocalyptic retread of Lord Of The Flies, but with all hot GQ-model Ralphs and no myopic Piggys.
(6) This report describes a young high-myopic patient who developed rubeosis iridis with peripheral retinal neovascularization one year after a circular buckling operation.
(7) The Houston Myopia Control Study is a 3-year randomized clinical trial in which each of 213 myopic children was placed in either a single vision (standard treatment) group, a +1.00 D add treatment group, or a +2.00 D add treatment group, on the basis of a randomized procedure.
(8) In chicks and rhesus monkeys, visual deprivation leads to ocular enlargement and a myopic refractive error, and it also reduces the retinal concentration of dopamine.
(9) Conventionally fitted Paraperm O2plus contact lenses were worn for 44 months by 23 myopic children, who discontinued lens wear for 2.5 months and then resumed lens wear with Fluoroperm 30 lenses for a period of 8 months.
(10) In severely myopic eyes secondary cataract not only impairs visual acuity but also interferes with peripheral retinal exploration; in these eyes Nd-Yag laser capsulotomies are not recommended because of the high risk of retinal detachment and also because this technique does not solve problems related to peripheral retinal examination.
(11) The routine in our department for years used to be: prevention of bearing down during the end of the 2nd stage of labor in high myopic parturients, by forceps delivery, with the assumption that this will prevent increased intraocular pressure--thus preventing deterioration or increased damage to the eyes.
(12) In contrast, only three of the six myopic epikeratophakia procedures had stable results.
(13) Myopic eyes are probably also more vulnerable to traumatic RD.
(14) Two hundred and forty mildly myopic schoolchildren aged 9-11 years were randomly allocated to three treatment groups and the progression of myopia was followed-up for three years.
(15) We reviewed alternatives with monofocal lenses, such as monovision and compound myopic astigmatism.
(16) Many myopic people, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional methods of optical correction, are interested in a permanent correction of their refractive error which would alleviate dependence on corrective lenses.
(17) In the high myopic patients with primary retinal detachment, the serum zinc and copper were found to be distinctly elevated and of statistical significance.
(18) Three chicks remained more myopic than the correcting lens required and finally started to recover while the lens was still in place.
(19) The method has been clinically tested on 32 patients (32 eyes) with different forms of age-related macular degeneration in the phase of complicated pigment epithelium detachment and on six patients (six eyes) with myopic exudative maculopathy.
(20) To compare the effects of these two strategies, eight rabbits underwent bilateral 5.00-diopter myopic ablations, performed with a contracting diaphragm in one eye and an expanding diaphragm in the other.