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hyperopia

hyperopia

n. farsightedness. Hyperopia is a refractive error due to an abnormally short eyeball, which causes the image of close objects to be blurred because the focal point of one or both eyes lies behind, rather than on, the retina. Compare emmetropia; myopia.

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