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presbyopiaVision defect, an increasing inability with advancing age to focus on near objects. It is caused by thickening and loss of elasticity in the lens, which is no longer able to relax to the near-spherical shape required for near vision. |
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Your article states that farsightedness will be treated with these new electric lenses (Switch-a-Vision: Electric spectacles could aid aging eyes;' SN: 4/22/06, p. Yet here, as in the "Perpetual Photos" of twenty years before, what McCollum evinced was a certain farsightedness, a productively thwarted desire to recognize more than recognition it self--in other words, the view through the keyhole. Doctors already can permanently correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and other problems. |
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