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adj. - Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects.

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  • Of six cows, five were hypermetropic and astigmatic and one was slightly myopic.
  • The young eye, for example, is too flat (hypermetropic) -- made to focus only on objects at a distance.
  • The disastrous consequences of eye strain should be understood by all in charge of children who are naturally hypermetropic.
  • The eyes of five rats examined gave the following result: Some were far sighted, others were hypermetropic and astigmatic, one was slightly myopic and one had mixed...
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