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hypermetropia

NOUN
farsightedness
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Antonyms
WEAK
nearsightedness


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It is otherwise in those cases of hypermetropia of high degree in which patients voluntarily call forth convergent squint, and retain it for a short time for the purpose of distinct vision.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

The theory may be tested then by statistics, which confront the cases of hypermetropia and convergent strabismus with those cases in which hypermetropia meets with Donders' conditions and normal binocular vision still remains.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

The influence of hypermetropia is very apparent in the percentage of periodic squint.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Those cases deserve particular mention, in which it remained doubtful whether hypermetropia of slight degree or emmetropia was present.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

It happens, indeed, that in considerable degrees of hypermetropia a slight convergent deviation occurs only from time to time, the cause of which, on closer investigation, can only be sought in the ocular muscles.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.