‘he wore spectacles to correct a mild degree of myopia’
‘Astigmatism may occur with myopia or hyperopia.’
‘Apart from testing the eye, they supply booklets detailing eye care with particular reference to refractive errors such as myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism.’
‘The Romans considered myopia a permanent defect that reduced the market value of a slave.’
‘The medical name for short-sightedness is myopia.’
‘And so we found an association between this opacity at the back of the lens and short-sightedness, or myopia.’
‘The Register reports another example of corporate myopia.’
‘It reeks of the typical psychology and myopia of the supposed intellectually and militarily powerful.’
‘The result is a sort of national and cultural myopia.’
‘The difference between political and religious leadership has blurred due to which the nation as a whole is affected gravely by myopia.’
‘And while intellectual hyperopia gets in the way of first class, specialised academic work, intellectual myopia is a more pernicious and widespread affliction of intellectual life today.’
Origin
Early 18th century modern Latin, from late Greek muōpia, from Greek muōps (see myope).
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