What's the difference between myopic and shortsighted?
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.
Shortsighted
Definition:
(a.) Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
(a.) Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
(a.) Having little regard for the future; heedless.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the bigger question is why in a shortsighted attempt to reduce greenhouse gases by a tiny amount (diesel cars do more miles to the gallon) the risks were ignored, and customers persuaded that diesel cars were actually greener.
(2) Lech Walesa, the first democratically elected president of post-communist Poland, has criticised David Cameron for acting "irrationally and shortsightedly" over immigration from eastern Europe.
(3) They are costly, they are shortsighted and create a cycle of despair and dependence,” he said.
(4) In a letter to the Sunday Times , signed by academics, politicians and business leaders, they warn the proposals are shortsighted, coming when the loss of wildlife and habitats is ongoing, and evidence suggests many children are missing out on the benefits of spending time in nature.
(5) Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell described it as "both shortsighted and harmful to our long-term security interests".
(6) I never share the view that the Tories are an organised conspiracy, though they are doing some foolish and shortsighted things – as well as a few wicked ones.
(7) In this way of thinking, the FBI’s request is not just shortsighted and worldly but immoral.
(8) This stance was backed by the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, but not by the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country will host the next G20 meeting, and who said on Friday that focusing only on economic growth was shortsighted.
(9) Some pundits will see the posts as indications of Trump’s shortsighted political impulses, but another possibility exists.
(10) Alistair Darling today delivered a cautious pre-election budget, ruling out "shortsighted" spending cuts in favour of securing a strong economic recovery.
(11) Victims should never feel ashamed to come forward and they deserve to be treated with respect and to receive the support they need.” David Rogers, who owns the mobile security company Copper Horse Solutions, said: “I think the Met chief’s comments are shortsighted.
(12) The film and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre called the lack of arts on the Ebacc "incredibly shortsighted" while the playwright Sir David Hare condemned the policy as "the most dangerous and far-reaching of the government's reforms".
(13) Second, by first misrepresenting the extent to which recent European migrants claim benefits, and then by refusing, for obvious and shortsighted political reasons, to release the underlying data until forced to by the media and parliament, the government has damaged its own case.
(14) How shortsighted not to make minor concessions that would put opponents in his debt.
(15) This is not only cruel but enormously shortsighted.
(16) "We are severely disappointed with Greg Hunt's shortsighted and ill-informed decision," he said.
(17) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party The committee’s selfish, shortsighted ambition was encapsulated in its exclusion of Steven Woolfe from the leadership race, ostensibly on the technical basis of some papers being submitted through their ancient computer system 17 minutes late.
(18) Frankly, it is completely shortsighted and wrong to claim this G7 failed to deliver.
(19) It is an unsightly manoeuvre, one that comes off as grasping and shortsighted.
(20) Mary Creagh, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said: "This year's floods have shown how shortsighted the government was to cut investment in flood defences.