myopia

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Also Known As	short-sightedness • nearsightedness • shortsightedness • near-sightedness

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eyeball radial keratotomy photorefractive keratectomy LASIK vision eye disease retinopathy uveitis keratitis macular degeneration conjunctivitis colour blindness glaucoma cataract strabismus detached retina

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Donders, engraving by H. Dilcher after a drawing by F. Kriehuber, c. 1860

Frans Cornelis Donders

Dutch ophthalmologist

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