What's the difference between presbyope and presbyopy?
Presbyope
Definition:
(n.) One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.
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.