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Myopia, also called nearsightedness or shortsightedness, is a refractive defect of the eye in which collimated light produces image focus in front of the retina when accommodation is relaxed. Those with myopia see nearby objects clearly but distant objects appear blurred. With myopia, the eyeball is too long, or the cornea is too steep, so images are focused in the vitreous inside the eye rather than on the retina at the back of the eye. The opposite defect of myopia is hyperopia or "farsightedness" or "long-sightedness" - this is where the cornea is too flat or the eye is too short.
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Can you use myopia in a sentence?
Myopia is a disease that causes dificulty in seeing. It is commonly called nearsightedness .
Myopia is a disease that affects which organ?
Myopia is near-sightedness, affecting vision (and the organ, of course, would be the eye).
Does reading a lot cause myopia?
If you are referring to myopia in the sense of intellectual short-sightedness, then no, reading a diverse amount of literature is one of the main cures of myopia. If you are referring to the visual disorder of myopia, then reading excessively can help to cause the disease, especially under poor light conditions.
How do you get degenerative myopia?
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What disease is associated with blood sugar?
Diabetes is the primary disease associated with blood sugar.
What is the genetic link for myopia?
genetic markers that may be associated with genes for myopia have been located on human chromosomes 1, 2, 12, and 18. There is some genetic information on the short arm of chromosome 2 in highly myopic people.
Is myopia a mental state?
No. Myopia is nearsightedness.
Use myopia in a sentence?
My eye's suffer from myopia.
Myopia is short-sightedness What is the opposite of myopia?
Hyperopia
What would you suffer from if you had myopia?
What would you suffer from if you had myopia
What disease is borrelia burgdorferi associated with?
Lyme disease
What is pathologic myopia?
begins as physiologic myopia, but rather than stabilizing, the eye continues to enlarge at an abnormal rate (progressive myopia). This more advanced type of myopia may lead to degenerative changes in the eye (degenerative myopia
