Myopia (nearsightedness) is a refractive error. Refractive error is when the eye does not bend (refract) light properly. Light does not focus correctly so images are not clear. In myopia, close objects look clear but distant objects appear blurred.
Under accommodation relaxed, parallel rays of light entering the eye focuses in front of the retina
• Also known as near-sightedness
• Two possible causes
- increase in corneal curvature (refractive myopia)
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Myopia (nearsightedness) is a refractive error. Refractive error is when the eye does not bend (refract) light properly. Light does not focus correctly so images are not clear. In myopia, close objects look clear but distant objects appear blurred.
Under accommodation relaxed, parallel rays of light entering the eye focuses in front of the retina
• Also known as near-sightedness
• Two possible causes
- increase in corneal curvature (refractive myopia)
- increase in axial length (axial myopia)
Answer:
lack of imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.
"historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as a western phenomenon"