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Definition of Ametropic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina.
Definition of Ametropic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Ametropic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ametropic
Literary usage of Ametropic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Refraction and how to refract by James Thorington (1900)
"(spoken of as ametropic). The M retinal images in H\ \ \ such eyes will be smaller
in the former and larger in the latter. (See Fig..) FIG.. Accommodation. ..."
2. Eye studies; a series of lessons on vision and visual tests by J. Milton Johnston (1892)
"ametropic Vision.—Having considered various features of emmetropic vision or
normal sight, we now pass to the consideration of ..."
3. The Commoner Diseases of the Eye: How to Detect and how to Treat Them by Casey Albert Wood, Thomas Adams Woodruff (1907)
"The abnormal or ametropic eye.—The differences between these lie mainly in their
shape and size.—How the eye focuses or accommodates. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by John Soelberg Wells (1883)
"the ere be normal, and the refraction hence emmetropic, the point of light will
remain stationary ; should the eye be ametropic, the light will move with ..."
5. Diseases of the eye: A Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"The eye may be ametropic in all meridians, but in some H. and in others M.' (H.
and M.). It is convenient to designate the different parts of the eye by ..."
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