hypermetropia
/ˌhʌɪpəmɪˈtrəʊpɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Long-sightedness.Contact lenses can be used most advantageously to correct myopia, but can also be used for hypermetropia and corneal astigmatism....
- Apart from testing the eye, they supply booklets detailing eye care with particular reference to refractive errors such as myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism.
- The medical name for long-sightedness is hypermetropia.
Derivatives
hypermetropic
- In the Western world some 15-20% of people are myopic and 40-50% hypermetropic, but in Japan and China 50-70% are myopic.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek hupermetros 'beyond measure' (from huper 'over, above' + metron 'measure') + ōps 'eye'.
- see sense (or reason)
- see service
- see someone coming
- see someone damned first
- see someone off
- see someone out
- see someone right
- see someone/thing out of (or from) the corner of one's eye
- see someone through
- see something coming
- see something of
- see something out
- see something through
- see stars
- seethe
- see the back of
- see the colour of someone's money
- see the error of one's ways
- see the funny side (of something)
- see the light
- see the light of day
- see the new year in
- see the world
- seethingly
- see through