Of six cows, five were hypermetropic and astigmatic and one was slightly myopic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference

The young eye, for example, is too flat (hypermetropic) -- made to focus only on objects at a distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

The disastrous consequences of eye strain should be understood by all in charge of children who are naturally hypermetropic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

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 astigmatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference

While the comparison is not quite admissible, yet the recent investigations carried on by Lang and Barrett, who examined the eyes of certain mammalia, found that the larger number were hypermetropic or far sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference

With all the difficulties which naturally surround such an examination they found that in fifty-two eyes of rabbits, thirty-six were hypermetropic and astigmatic, eight were hypermetropic only, five were myopic and astigmatic, and others presented mixed astigmatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference

Are we justified in concluding, then, that in the "good old times" of our great-grandmothers -- that idyllic time when women must have been at least free from the reproach that they, solely and unaided, were destroying the hopes of the race -- that myopic, hypermetropic and astigmatic eyes were not in existence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

My quoting Messrs. Lang and Barrett's figures was to bring more prominently to the notice of my hearers the fact that the eyes of primitive man resembled the eyes of the lower mammalia and that the natural eye as an organ of vision was hypermetropic, or far sighted, and that civilization was the cause of the myopic or near sighted eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference

They are well-developed in hypermetropic, but are rudimentary or absent in myopic eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye] Reference

Maybe the lens is a bit myopic/hypermetropic.    From Wordnik.com.  [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference