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Medical Definition of Refractive amblyopia
1. A suppression of central vision due to an unequal refractive error (anisometropia) of at least two diopters. This induces a sufficient difference in image size (aniseikonia) that the two images cannot be fused. In order to avoid confusion, the blurrier image is suppressed. Synonym: refractive amblyopia. (05 Mar 2000)