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AMETROPIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does ametropia mean?

• AMETROPIA (noun)
The noun AMETROPIA has 1 sense:

1. (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia

Familiarity information: AMETROPIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AMETROPIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("ametropia" is a kind of...):

vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)

Domain category:

ophthalmology (the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ametropia"):

myopia; nearsightedness; shortsightedness ((ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred)

astigmatism; astigmia ((ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea)

farsightedness; hypermetropia; hypermetropy; hyperopia; longsightedness (abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects)

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