Definition of Metamorphopsia

1. Noun. A defect of vision in which objects appear to be distorted; usually due to a defect in the retina.


Medical Definition of Metamorphopsia

1. Distortion of visual images. Origin: meta-+ G. Morphe, shape, + opsis, vision (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metamorphopsia

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metamorphopsia (current term)
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Literary usage of Metamorphopsia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Within the scotoma the lines are curved in and are distorted. 6, metamorphopsia in same rase nine years after ; positive scotoma »till present. ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1909)
"... is the opposite condition, and is characterized by an overestimation of the size of objects. metamorphopsia is a visual defect in which the objects ..."

3. Hand-book of the Anatomy and Diseases of the Eye and Ear: For Students and by Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, Achilles Edward Davis (1904)
"metamorphopsia (Gr. /«Ta/xo/)<£oü>, to transform).— Here the objects appear distorted. It occurs in retinal disease and in irregular astigmatism. ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1887)
"When the metamorphopsia does not exist over a large area of the field, or involve the centre, it is sometimes only to be made out by a careful subjective ..."

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