different between astigmatism vs miopy
astigmatism
English
Etymology
From a- (negative prefix) + stem of Ancient Greek ?????? (stígma, “mark, point”) + -ism. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1846.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??st??m?t?zm?/
Noun
astigmatism (countable and uncountable, plural astigmatisms)
- (optics) A defect of a lens such that light rays coming from a point do not meet at a focal point so that the image is blurred.
- (pathology) A disorder of the vision, usually due to a misshapen cornea, such that light does not focus correctly on the retina causing a blurred image.
Synonyms
- astigmia
Derived terms
- astigmatic
- astigmatically
Related terms
- stigma
- stigmatize
Translations
See also
- emmetropia
- hyperopia
- myopia
Further reading
- astigmatism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian
Etymology
From French astigmatisme
Noun
astigmatism n (uncountable)
- astigmatism
Declension
astigmatism From the web:
- what astigmatism looks like
- what astigmatism looks like at night
- what astigmatism mean
- what astigmatism feels like
- what astigmatism is high
- what astigmatism sees
- what astigmatism vision looks like
- what seeing with astigmatism looks like
miopy
miopy From the web:
- what myopia
- what myopia looks like
- what myopia is legally blind
- what myopia means
- what's myopia in english
- what myopia in tagalog
- what is myopia and hypermetropia
- what is myopia how can it be corrected
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