Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inequality of the eyes with respect to refractive power.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A condition in which the two
eyes of an individual have differentrefractive power.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun difference in the refractive power of the two eyes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of those, between one third and one half have a type of lazy eye known as anisometropia, which is caused by a difference in the degree of nearsightedness or farsightedness between the two eyes.
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THIS STUDY randomly assigned 88 children, 7 to 12 years old, who were wearing corrective lenses because of amblyopia caused by differing degrees of near- or farsightedness, known as anisometropia, to one of two treatment groups.
Quick Study: Acupuncture helps some kids with lazy eye Post 2010
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The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two eyes, a condition called anisometropia.
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The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two anisometropia.
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The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two anisometropia.
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The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two eyes, a condition called [[anisometropia]].
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The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two eyes, a condition called anisometropia.
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The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two anisometropia.
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At 10 years after surgery, anisometropia remained far below the 7. 36-diopter baseline, at an average of 1.47 (range 0.75 to 3.24 diopters).
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Refractive surgery provides good long-term outcomes for children and young teens when lasers are used to correct anisometropia, but problems arise over time after lens implantation, according to separate studies reported here.
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