(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.
Parochial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(2) Using similar procedures, Study 2 was conducted with practicing Catholics attending parochial high schools.
(3) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
(4) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.
(5) Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810.
(6) Scientific inquiry, for the most part, can be described as parochial.
(7) The MAACL-R scores of 139 middle and senior high public school students (76 females, 63 males) were compared with those of 403 parochial school students (196 females and 207 males).
(8) Because most experiments on lateral eye movement and laterality are done with one parochially based group, it was wondered if percentages of laterality and consistency of glance would be consistent in disparate groups.
(9) Other leaders, however, proved equally unable to transcend parochialism when the crunch came.
(10) Indeed, you could argue that Better Together's estimation of women's political contribution is more respectful, for instance, than that of the Labour MP Austin Mitchell, and a school of thought that finds, with him, that women are not so much too preoccupied, as too feeble, mild, parochial and, basically, female, not to be discriminated against.
(11) Nonprivate, non-parochial, university-affiliated agencies welcome student learning experiences and have the time, place and people resources to support them.
(12) Some of our conclusions are parochial, some are generally applicable; others are applicable only to countries with comprehensive health care.
(13) The goal is: (1) to show that data pertaining to individual cause of death extracted from parochial records can contribute to knowledge about historical mortality patterns at the community level, (2) to determine if an epidemiological transition occurred in this population, and (3) to identify changes in disease patterns over time.
(14) Differences were noted in the food habits of students in public vs. parochial schools and by birth place.
(15) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
(16) My view may be too narrow and parochial, but I think it is more than coincidental that two of the groups under severest attack as untrustworthy are politicians and psychiatrists.
(17) I don’t have time to take counsel from the east-coast Twitterati.” “There is,” he continued, talking with the west-coast parochialism of someone who didn’t just move to Perth five years ago, “a significant disconnect between what people are saying over east and what is happening here in Canning.” Andrew Hastie says he was cleared over accidental deaths of two Afghan boys Read more The people of Canning, he said, are concerned about jobs, the ice drug trade and infrastructure.
(18) "This will destroy a research-led department with an excellent reputation and make Swansea look insular and parochial," it says.
(19) This study shows that HCMV is less parochial in its host range than previously thought.
(20) We believe discussion of this question has been needlessly parochial and confused.