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Word: hyperopia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixed blessing, clumsy, detracting from appearance, a sign of age. Contact lenses are not ideal either: often difficult to manage, uncomfortable to wear, easy to lose. Is there any other option? Some ophthalmologists now think there is. They say two common vision problems-near- and farsightedness (myopia and hyperopia)-can be corrected or eased with surgery that reshapes the cornea, the eye's outer covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shaping Up the Blurry Eye | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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