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Definition of Metamorphopsia
1. Noun. A defect of vision in which objects appear to be distorted; usually due to a defect in the retina.
Medical Definition of Metamorphopsia
1. Distortion of visual images. Origin: meta-+ G. Morphe, shape, + opsis, vision (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metamorphopsia
Literary usage of Metamorphopsia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Within the scotoma the lines are curved in and are distorted. 6, metamorphopsia
in same rase nine years after ; positive scotoma »till present. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1909)
"... is the opposite condition, and is characterized by an overestimation of the
size of objects. metamorphopsia is a visual defect in which the objects ..."
3. Hand-book of the Anatomy and Diseases of the Eye and Ear: For Students and by Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, Achilles Edward Davis (1904)
"metamorphopsia (Gr. /«Ta/xo/)<£oü>, to transform).— Here the objects appear
distorted. It occurs in retinal disease and in irregular astigmatism. ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1887)
"When the metamorphopsia does not exist over a large area of the field, or involve
the centre, it is sometimes only to be made out by a careful subjective ..."
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