See Also: Hyperopia(medicine)
hyperopia(dictionary)
Hyperopia(health)
facultative hyperopia(medicine)
axial hyperopia(medicine)
absolute hyperopia(medicine)
total hyperopia(medicine)
curvature hyperopia(medicine)
latent hyperopia(medicine)
manifest hyperopia(medicine)

Hyperopia (health)


Hyperopia (or more rarely, hypermetropia), also known as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance. As an object moves towards the eye, the eye must increase its power to keep the image on the retina.