(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.
Presbyopic
Definition:
(a.) Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses methods for improving vision in the dental operatory and details a new design for eyeglasses suitable for the presbyopic dentist.
(2) Emmetropic presbyopes are not used to wearing bifocal or progressive-power lenses all the time.
(3) At the presbyopic age, education, accurate close work, and poor distant vision were connected with the wearing of spectacles.
(4) A total of 108 presbyopes were fitted with lenses, and after 12 months 46% were still wearing the lenses.
(5) The authors have examined the repeatability of refractive error measures (retinoscopy, subjective refraction, and Canon R-1 autorefraction, noncycloplegic and cycloplegic), axial dimension measures (Allergan-Humphrey A-scan ultrasound), and corneoscopy (keratometry and KERA photokeratoscopy), and the agreement between different refractive error and corneal measurement methods on 40 pre-presbyopic normal adults.
(6) A 60 year-old black man when seen in consultation for foreign body sensation and presbyopic complaints was noted on ophthalmoscopy to have bilateral pigment epithelial defects.
(7) We found that fusional vergence ranges in presbyopes corrected with MV were not substantially different from those measured under full binocular nearpoint correction.
(8) The effects of monovision (MV) contact lens wear on the performance of occupational-type nearpoint tasks was evaluated on 18 presbyopic subjects (ages 44 to 67 years) by comparing MV performance (MV condition) to that with distance contact lenses with reading glasses (BV condition).
(9) The first three stages are those proposed by Bausch & Lomb as the Presbyopic Fitting System.
(10) There are several hydrogel bifocal designs that are possible for the presbyope.
(11) Even without the aid of echometry and objective aniseikonic measurement, Rule 1 enables us to prescribe combined contact lens correction for 80% of all presbyopic patients, thus enabling them to regain comfortable binocular vision.
(12) However, pre-presbyopic individuals with accommodative or vergence disorders who respond favorably to plus lenses at near may be good candidates for bifocal contact lenses.
(13) The aging (presbyopic) pilot has difficulty with near vision which can be a serious problem in the cockpit because of the complexity and uniqueness of his visual tasks.
(14) This article deals with a type of pulpit spectacles which have been specially developed for emmetropic presbyopes.
(15) Several actual cases were presented to show the problems encountered with flight deck vision in the middle-age presbyopic pilot both in the simulator and in flight.
(16) Twenty one presbyopes of 48 years old and over (considered as emmetropes or light ametropes), and a young aphakik patient wearing contact lenses, working before visualization screens, were equipped with semi-framed Varilux 2.
(17) The majority of the patients were in the presbyopic age group.
(18) While there are presbyopic patients who can achieve satisfactory vision via the contact lens modalities now in use, the physiological influences discussed here have been generally ignored by the profession.
(19) This study determined the ability of 12 presbyopic subjects to read numerals from aeronautical approach procedure charts.
(20) Bifocal contact lenses produced today are far from perfection; however, there are several different types produced, one of which should work out for most presbyopic patients who can be successfully fit with single vision contact lenses.