Hyperopia

Hyperopia: Farsightedness; the ability to see distant objects more clearly than close objects.
Hyperopia may be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.
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Hyperopia
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(h´´pr´p): see farsightedness.
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hyperopia - Commonly known as farsightedness, hyperopia is the refractive error in which an image of a distant object becomes focused behind the retina, either because the eyeball axis is too short, ...
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Overcorrection (hyperopia)
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Hyperopia occurs when near objects are blurry and far objects are clear. In this case, the eye is too short for its focusing ability, which causes the blurriness.
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Farsightedness (hyperopia). This occurs when your cornea is curved too little or your eye is shorter from front to back than normal. The effect is the opposite of nearsightedness.
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Farsightedness (hyperopia) may be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.
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FARSIGHTEDNESS (Hyperopia)
SYMPTOMS"A person's distance vision is good, but his near vision is blurry.
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PermaVision intracorneal lens A removable keratophakia lens for the treatment of hyperopia up to +6 diopters.
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People are generally born with a small amount of hyperopia (farsightedness), but as the eye grows this decreases and myopia does not become evident until later.
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myopia (nearsightedness)
hyperopia (farsightedness)
astigmatism (asymmetrical cornea)
presbyopia (inability to focus on near objects that develops with age) ...
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Myopia (nearsightedness)
Hyperopia (farsightedness)
Astigmatism (asymmetrical cornea)
Presbyopia (inability to focus on near objects that develops with age) ...
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That is only for low degrees of farsightedness or hyperopia. Without touching the eye, the laser reshapes the cornea by placing 16 tiny spots on the outside of the cornea.
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