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Definition of Emmetropes
1. emmetrope [n] - See also: emmetrope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emmetropes
Literary usage of Emmetropes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1871)
"... Amblyopes 7= 0.6 " Total 1092 100 per cent. Among 2,53i pupils of the Russian
Gymnasia there were Myopes 866 = 34.2 per cent. emmetropes 654 = 25.8 ..."
2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society by American Ophthalmological Society (1865)
"emmetropes 205 = 24.2 ... emmetropes C54 = 25.8 ... And among 1824 pupils of the
German schools, there were Myopes 451 = 24.7 per cent emmetropes 478 ..."
3. The Diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of the eye by Henry Willard Williams (1886)
"The following is given as an approximative scale of the power of glasses required
to correct Pr. in emmetropes: — Hypermetropic eyes, which call for an ..."
4. Ophthalmic review (1891)
"The difference between the myopes and the emmetropes is, on the average, ...
The average increment is : for myopes, 5-410 mm. ; for emmetropes, 2"072 mm.; ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1888)
"In emmetropes, and sometimes in hyperopes, such spasm of the whole muscle will
induce apparent myopia, and in myopes exaggeration of the myopia. ..."
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