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  2. Farsightedness - Wikipedia

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    Total hypermetropia: It is the total amount of hyperopia which is obtained after complete relaxation of accommodation using cycloplegics like atropine. Latent hyperopia : It is the amount of hyperopia normally corrected by ciliary tone (approximately 1 diopter).

  3. Refractive error - Wikipedia

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    Rates among adults are between 15 and 49% while rates among children are between 1.2 and 42%. [7] Far-sightedness more commonly affects young children and the elderly. [8] [9] Presbyopia affects most people over the age of 35. [3]

  4. Presbyopia - Wikipedia

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    Presbyopia is a physiological insufficiency of optical accommodation associated with the aging of the eye; it results in progressively worsening ability to focus clearly on close objects. [4] Also known as age-related farsightedness [5] (or as age-related long sight in the UK [6]), it affects many adults over the age of 40. A common sign of ...

  5. Corrective lens - Wikipedia

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    The prescription consists of all the specifications necessary to make the lens. Prescriptions typically include the power specifications of each lens (for each eye). Strengths are generally prescribed in quarter-diopter steps (0.25 D), because most people cannot generally distinguish between smaller increments (e.g., eighth-diopter steps / 0. ...

  6. Optics and vision - Wikipedia

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    The prescription consists of all the specifications necessary to make the lens. Prescriptions typically include the power specifications of each lens (for each eye). Strengths are generally prescribed in quarter-diopter steps (0.25 D) because most people cannot generally distinguish between smaller increments (ex. eighth-diopter steps / 0.125 D).

  7. Anisometropia - Wikipedia

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    Generally, a difference in power of one diopter (1D) is the threshold for diagnosis of the condition. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Patients may have up to 3 diopters of anisometropia before the condition becomes clinically significant due to headache, eye strain, double vision or photophobia.

  8. Refractive surgery - Wikipedia

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    Refractive surgery is an optional eye surgery used to improve the refractive state of the eye and decrease or eliminate dependency on glasses or contact lenses.This can include various methods of surgical remodeling of the cornea (keratomileusis), lens implantation or lens replacement.

  9. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    Presbyopia is a visual condition that causes farsightedness. The eye's lens becomes too inflexible to accommodate to normal reading distance, focus tending to remain fixed at long distance. Glaucoma is a type of blindness that begins at the edge of the visual field and progresses inward. It may result in tunnel vision. This typically involves ...