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Definition of Hypermetropic
1. Adjective. Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects.
Category relationships: Ophthalmology
Similar to: Farsighted, Presbyopic
Derivative terms: Hypermetropia, Hypermetropy, Hyperopia
Definition of Hypermetropic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypermetropic
Literary usage of Hypermetropic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Refraction of the Eye: Including a Complete Treatise on Opthalmometry by Achilles Edward Davis (1900)
"These points once obtained, the character of the error of refraction, if
hypermetropic or myopic, is, in the great majority of cases, easily found out with ..."
2. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... These three diagrams show the situation of the image in a normal eye, in the
myopic or short-sighted eye, and in the hypermetropic or long-sighted eye. ..."
3. Eye studies; a series of lessons on vision and visual tests by J. Milton Johnston (1892)
"hypermetropic Astigmatism.—If the astigmatic meridian is hypermetropic we ...
And it is simple hypermetropic astigmatism, provided the other meridians are ..."
4. Hygiene of the Eye by William Campbell Posey (1918)
"10), in which rays of light entering the eye from a distance are brought to a
focus exactly on the retina. By Hie hypermetropic or far- sighted eye (Fig. ..."
5. Diseases and Injuries of the Eye: Their Medical and Surgical Treatment by George Lawson (1885)
"Peculiarities of the hypermetropic Eye.—It.is smaller in all its dimensions than
the emmetropic eye, but especially in the antero-posterior diameter, ..."
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