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myopia

noun as in tunnel vision

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Some early research also suggests that excessive screen time during the pandemic may even be leading to increased rates of myopia, or nearsightedness.

From Time

Nonetheless, there’s an element of myopia here, and being excessively cautious can prevent organizations from realizing the benefits of data-driven collaboration, particularly when it comes to software and product development.

You end up seriously farsighted, focused on the mysteries and panoramic wonders, with a nearsighted myopia to the flaws in the frame.

In studies, they dramatically reduced the progression of myopia.

In studies, the lenses reduced the progression of myopia by 59 percent over a three-year period.

But not all political action fueled by moral myopia is wrong.

But while this tension is old, American Jewish groups did not always respond to it with the moral myopia they display today.

Ezra wonders why the GOP would embrace what he deems "ratio-myopia."

The police barricades throughout lower Manhattan are a rebuke to the larger lessons of 9/11, a sign of civic myopia.

Beltway myopia and overheated rhetoric could trigger another worldwide credit crisis, warns Zachary Karabell.

The examination showed for the right eye hypermetropia 1·5, for the left myopia 3·5 D.; full acuity of vision on both sides.

Therefore we see the same form of squint arise less often in emmetropia (see Case 45) when childhood is past, than in myopia.

Full visual acuity on both sides—in the first examination slight myopia - ·75 D. is specified, afterwards emmetropia.

Those cases deserve special consideration in which emmetropia is present in one eye, in the other myopia.

Slight degrees of one-sided myopia reconcile themselves with the continuance of a normal binocular act of vision.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to myopia, such as: narrow-mindedness, blind spot, blinders, constricted vision, fixation, and monomania.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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