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myopia

[mahy-oh-pee-uh] / maɪˈoʊ pi ə /


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Children would then be followed over time so researchers could compare myopia rates with those seen in daycare centers using conventional lighting.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Glasses or contact lenses can correct blurry vision, but severe myopia also raises the risk of serious eye problems later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

"The model of myopia we use in the tree shrew is fairly extreme," says corresponding author Richard Lang, PhD, director of research in the Division of Ophthalmology at Cincinnati Children's.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

But Mr. Blaževičius depicts with a deadpan ruthlessness the pull of complacency, the ease of lapsing back into lives full of compromise and myopia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

So I congratulated myself on this achievement because I had been hoping for some form of myopia, and now I had it.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Like all TV shows, but especially ones that capture the zeitgeist, it’s a product of its time, reflecting the myopias of the era and of its creative team.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

But alongside generational myopias there is wisdom, too.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2020

Ultimately, however, as the disorientation expands, we realise that there are not just misogynies at work here: there are cultural myopias, competing models of freedom, competing versions of Islam.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020

But it’s also a symbol for certain insistent myopias of masculinity.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019


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