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accommodative insufficiency

accommodative insufficiency

a reduction in the efficiency of the eye’s ability to change focus for objects at different distances (visual accommodation), as evidenced primarily by blurring of near vision. It is usually caused by either dysfunction of the eye’s ciliary muscles or by midbrain injury.

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