hyperopia: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	long-sightedness • far-sightedness • longsightedness • farsightedness • hypermetropia

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Side-by-side diagram comparing a farsighted (hyperopic) eye and a normal eye, showing how light focuses behind the retina in hyperopia and directly on the retina in a normal eye, with labeled parts including lens, cornea, sclera, and retina.

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Donders, engraving by H. Dilcher after a drawing by F. Kriehuber, c. 1860

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