Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
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Longsightedness
abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects
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State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Blindness.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Inflammation of the conjunctiva.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.visual impairment resulting from the retina becoming separated from the choroid in the back of the eye; treated by photocoagulation
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.visual impairment resulting from the retina becoming separated from the choroid in the back of the eye; treated by photocoagulation
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Quality of bbeing farsighted.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Alt. of Hypermetropy
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Hypermetropia.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.pressure exerted by the fluids inside the eyeball; regulated by resistance to the outward flow of aqueous humor; "glaucoma can result…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.pressure exerted by the fluids inside the eyeball; regulated by resistance to the outward flow of aqueous humor; "glaucoma can result…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Inflammation of the cornea.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.eye disease caused by degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea and results in blurred vision; can cause blindness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they rea…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Ophthalmology.See Myopic, and Myopia.
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Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.The act of discerning.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual cri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: abnormal, condition, vision, distant, objects.A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
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