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Definition of Meropia
1. partial blindness [n -S] : MEROPIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meropia
Literary usage of Meropia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1848)
"meropia, from fup>(, 'a part,' and u\f, ' the eye.' A partial obscurity of vision. ..."
2. Faiths of Man: A Cyclopædia of Religions by James George Roche Forlong (1906)
"... and Siphnos was meropia, the inhabitants being said to be very licentious,
but to live to the age of 120 years. ..."
3. A Text book of ophthalmology by John Westley Wright (1896)
"meropia (me-roh'-pe-ah). Partial dulness or obscuration of sight.
METAMORPHOPSIA (mawr-fop'-see-ah ). An affection of the eyes in which objects appear ..."
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