Word: optic
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...myopia, nor how much heredity or eye-strain is to blame. "Myopia has been associated with everthing from pregnancy to tooth decay," Greene says. Researchers agree only that myopia is the abnormal bulging of the back of the eye or "posterior sclera," usually around the gap for the optic nerve. But no one is sure what causes the swelling, whether myopics are born with bulge or have brought it on themselves by reading in dark corners...