visual acuity

NOUN

keen sight

Synonyms

WEAK

20/20 vision acute sight perspicacity perspicuity sharp sight twenty-twenty vision

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Though some patients could make out patterns immediately, all patients' visual acuity improved over months of training.

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In normally sighted newborns, retinal cone cells are not well-developed at birth, resulting in babies having poor visual acuity and poor color vision.

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Volunteers using the lenses also reported noticeable improvements in visual acuity at a variety of distances and lighting conditions.

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To do this, the team performed a cohort study and looked at the visual acuity of 967 Japanese patients at TDMU's Advanced Clinical Center for Myopia after 3 and 5 years had passed.

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Sighted participants recruited for the study were asked to test and verify the phosphene maps based on visual acuity and object recognition.

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