myopia

This can cause refractive errors such as myopia, better known as nearsightedness, in which distant objects appear blurry.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

Children who spend more time indoors looking at screens and less time outside are more likely to develop myopia, also known as nearsightedness.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

"The model of myopia we use in the tree shrew is fairly extreme," says corresponding author Richard Lang, PhD, director of research in the Division of Ophthalmology at Cincinnati Children's.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

But Mr. Blaževičius depicts with a deadpan ruthlessness the pull of complacency, the ease of lapsing back into lives full of compromise and myopia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

A small boy, five-ish, with myopia and glasses, emerges from the water; characteristically, although his hair is dripping his glasses are bone dry; he has already begun to master technique.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Like all TV shows, but especially ones that capture the zeitgeist, it’s a product of its time, reflecting the myopias of the era and of its creative team.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

But alongside generational myopias there is wisdom, too.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2020

Ultimately, however, as the disorientation expands, we realise that there are not just misogynies at work here: there are cultural myopias, competing models of freedom, competing versions of Islam.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020

But it’s also a symbol for certain insistent myopias of masculinity.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019