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hypermetropia
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hypermetropia

Defect of vision in which a person is able to focus on objects in the distance, but not on close objects. It is caused by the failure of the lens to return to its normal rounded shape, or by the eyeball being too short, with the result that the image is focused on a point behind the retina. Hypermetropia is corrected by wearing glasses fitted with converging lenses, each of which acts like a magnifying glass.



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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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