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myopia medical definition
noun
Abbr. M, My A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it; nearsightedness; shortsightedness.
Related Forms:
- myopic adjective
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myopia
Top: myopic vision
Bottom: corrected vision
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