How To Use Sightedness In A Sentence

  • That's why we cannot afford a single moment of complacency, a second of self-indulgence, a soupcon of short-sightedness, or a waking moment of egotism. Carl Pope: Game Time
  • Clear-sightedness is only possible when one is not distracted by jargon, and psycho-babble or intimidated by emotional blackmail.
  • When it took control, it promised a global stewardship purring with gravity, finesse and farsightedness.
  • The degree of your nearsightedness determines your focusing ability.
  • Myopia, or nearsightedness, is another leading risk factor for retinal detachment.
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  • The nutrition plays a role in the prevention of nearsightedness.
  • Even though Kumar had long-sightedness (hypermetropia) since birth, it wasn't discovered early enough. Daily News & Analysis
  • People with long-sightedness usually need to wear corrective eyewear such as glasses or contact lenses to read, write and carry out detailed tasks.
  • People with long-sightedness usually need to wear corrective eyewear such as glasses or contact lenses to read, write and carry out detailed tasks.
  • Overall, this is a good problem for Apple to have but the folks at Nokia in Espoo, Finland must be thanking Steve Jobs profusely for his shortsightedness. Good News in the One Million Missing iPhones - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • The difference between a regular contact lens and a toric lens is that torics have two powers, (one for astigmatism, the other for short-sightedness or long-sightedness).
  • Two types of laser surgery-photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) - are often used to correct refractive errors such as nearsightedness, according to background information in the article. Undefined
  • The most common causes of amblyopia are misalignment of the eyes (crossed eyes) or significant differences in refractive error, such as farsightedness or nearsightedness, between the two eyes.
  • This condition is probably heavily implicated in osteoporosis and, according to my evidence, is a principal cause of increased distensibility of the sclera (the white outer coat of the eyes), allowing more rapid development of nearsightedness (myopia) and other refractive changes. What foods, minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids help your eyes?
  • Doctors already deploy more traditional lasers to remove tattoos, correct short-sightedness, cut tissue or whiten teeth.
  • A man who really reads a book and reads it well, reads it for moral muscle, spiritual skill, for far-sightedness, for catholicity -- above all for a kind of limberness and suppleness, a swift sure strength through his whole being. The Lost Art of Reading
  • I have suffered from myopia or shortsightedness all my life and things are getting worse.
  • Thanks to the government's short-sightedness, our hospitals are very short of cash.
  • An eye surgeon has been accused of serious professional misconduct after a client who had laser surgery to correct short-sightedness says he was left with blurred vision.
  • Speakers at the seminar said increase in lens opacity might lead to blurred vision, sensitivity to light or glare, nearsightedness and distorted images.
  • Farsightedness, or hyperopia, is a common refraction problem causing blurred vision of close objects.
  • These children will inherit the repercussions of our actions on the environment, but hopefully not our shortsightedness; expedience is no longer an excuse for turning a blind eye. Hands around Lake Chapala, Mexico - an eco event
  • Radical eye surgery promises to cure short-sightedness.
  • We must not go by the short - sightedness of the small producer.
  • Hyperopia: Commonly referred to as farsightedness, hyperopia refers to the limited ability to focus on near objects. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The power of thought increases with education, experience, farsightedness and wisdom. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • A new study suggests that people who have their nearsightedness corrected with either LASIK or photorefractive keratectomy, a slightly older WN.com - Articles related to Plugging Into the Eye, With a New Design
  • This surgery is used to correct mild-to-moderate nearsightedness and has good results.
  • Numerous tests have shown no relationship between computer use and cataracts, retinal damage, or permanent nearsightedness.
  • * '' 'Hyperopia:' '' Commonly referred to as farsightedness, hyperopia refers to the limited ability to focus on near objects. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The government now recognises the short-sightedness of this approach.
  • Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Amblyopia can also result from a major difference in the refraction between the two eyes, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism.
  • When the symptoms were very complicated, the patient was supposed to be possessed with many demons — a demon of madness, one of luxury, one of avarice, one of obstinacy, one of short-sightedness, one of deafness; and the exorciser could not easily miss finding a demon of foolery created, with another of knavery. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • For nearsightedness, close the eyes and pass the fingers, very gently, several times across them outward, from the canthus, or corner next the nose, towards the temple. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • Most refractive surgical procedures were developed to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.
  • Radical eye surgery promises to cure short-sightedness.
  • The experimental procedure, called photo-refractive keratectomy (PRK) and performed only by ophthalmologists, uses a new "excimer" laser to treat moderate degrees of nearsightedness (myopia). A Light For Poor Eyes
  • The glasses do not correct astigmatism, but they are effective against nearsightedness and farsightedness.
  • All human eyes have a slight degree of farsightedness at birth.
  • As the degree of nearsightedness increases, so does the complexity of the surgical treatment.
  • Genuinely was sensibly imploringly than a solvable sandpile of easy krakatao in the earth, hurried therefor the farsightedness with all the pillar of a chemoreceptive sundew in diapason. Rational Review
  • Hypermetropia, or long-sightedness, is corrected by spectacles with convex lenses that make the eyes appear larger, as shown in the photograph.
  • The nutrition plays a role in the prevention of nearsightedness.
  • When you do this you will attempt nothing but what you know you can carry out, and success will crown your efforts; this is what businessmen call farsightedness; it is much the same as insight, and it is one of the great secrets of success in all important undertakings. The Master Key System
  • Orthokeratology is a non surgical treatment that uses precise specially shaped contact lenses to temporarily reshape the cornea in order to eliminate nearsightedness or myopia.
  • The flatter cornea then focuses images farther back inside the eyeball, projecting them on the retina instead of in front of it, as is the case in nearsightedness.
  • * '' 'Myopia:' '' Often called nearsightedness, myopia is a vision problem experienced by CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The medical name for short-sightedness is myopia.
  • The experimental procedure, called photo-refractive keratectomy (PRK) and performed only by ophthalmologists, uses a new "excimer" laser to treat moderate degrees of nearsightedness (myopia). A Light For Poor Eyes
  • The most common form of refractive error is nearsightedness; others include farsightedness and astigmatism.
  • However their short-sightedness will ultimately cause their own downfall.
  • Myopia: Often called nearsightedness, myopia is a vision problem experienced by 30% of Americans. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Two types of laser surgery-photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) - are often used to correct refractive errors such as nearsightedness. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • It is a surgical treatment for short-sightedness, some forms of long-sightedness and astigmatism and is carried out by ophthalmic surgeons.
  • Of those, between one third and one half have a type of lazy eye known as anisometropia, which is caused by a difference in the degree of nearsightedness or farsightedness between the two eyes. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • Thanks to the government's short-sightedness, our hospitals are very short of cash.
  • Myopia: Often called nearsightedness, myopia is a vision problem experienced by 30% of CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
  • Thanks to the government's short-sightedness, our hospitals are very short of cash.
  • Jack had been excused from military service on account of short-sightedness.
  • Some studies have also shown that progression of nearsightedness can be lessened by contact lens use.
  • We need a two-term governorship to solve the problem of institutionalized short-sightedness and lack of long-term accountability, we need to support bipartisan restricting and not just when we are in the minority, we need even stricter ethics rules and increased transparency in campaign financing, etc. Greg Werkheiser: Thoughts on the DPVA Chair Job
  • The first use of spectacles for correcting long-sightedness has been traced to Italy, towards the end of the 13th century.
  • She attributes her accomplishments to the far-sightedness of her father who not only encouraged her in academics but also stood steadfast in his support of her profession that was dubbed unfeminine.
  • Short-sightedness, traditionally a problem among the highly educated, has reached record levels in east Asia, lead researcher Professor Ian Morgan told AFP.
  • Near-sightedness is a visual defect.
  • He made himself larger than life in multi-storey platforms and drew attention to his glasses, rather than his short-sightedness, with flamboyant eyewear.
  • Researchers have discovered that short-sightedness and high IQs seem to go together in children.
  • Long-sightedness can also be treated more permanently with radial keratotomy.
  • Such cases are known as nearsightedness and are corrected by having placed in front of the eyes concave lenses of the proper strength. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners
  • People with shortsightedness have poorer ability to focus accurately by accommodation, which leads to even more retinal blur and defocus.
  • THIS STUDY randomly assigned 88 children, 7 to 12 years old, who were wearing corrective lenses because of amblyopia caused by differing degrees of near- or farsightedness, known as anisometropia, to one of two treatment groups. Quick Study: Acupuncture helps some kids with lazy eye
  • Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • In addition to a magnifying effect that shortsightedness seems to have, people like me can also creep up creepingly close to the things we want to look at and still focus properly. Archive 2009-03-01
  • It's no that, however," said he, "that sud blind a man to facts; and it's true as ye stated it, Leddy Peebles, with yore usual clear-sightedness into a 'human affairs, that a man that's aye drunken, maun be held to be a drunkard; and a man that's aye spendin' whan he should be payin ', maun beware of folks ca'ing him, what ye ca'd him but noo. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
  • He said developments are expected within a year which will not only enable severe astigmatism to be corrected but also long-sightedness.
  • * '' 'Myopia:' '' Often called nearsightedness, [[myopia]] is a vision problem experienced by 30% of Americans. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Long-sightedness occurs when the eyeball is too short in relation to the focusing power of the cornea and lens.
  • The medical name for long-sightedness is hypermetropia.
  • We hope they will have the farsightedness to see past the exuberant accolades that are fleetingly bestowed upon them.
  • Myopia, or nearsightedness, occurs when two clear structures at the front of the eye - the cornea and the lens - focus incoming light at a point in front of the retina, instead of on its surface.
  • And in truth, it wasn't difficult to cite examples of short-sightedness, bloody-mindedness, and cynical manipulation of memberships.
  • And so we found an association between this opacity at the back of the lens and short-sightedness, or myopia.
  • Common eye problems including short-sightedness and a squint.
  • The insular isolation of the media trendies who live and work here is one of the things we are supposed to laugh at, but the scripts themselves are guilty of a similar short-sightedness.
  • There is a greater number of the population who are farsighted, have astigmatism, or have a combination of astigmatism with either farsightedness or nearsightednes.
  • Viruses exist only because of the short - sightedness of subsequent developers who completely ignored the security problems.
  • It principally manifests itself as an increase of the dark adaptation threshold, nystagmus, and often moderate to high short sightedness, although the refractive state may be long sighted or normal.
  • Two types of laser surgery-photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) - are often used to correct refractive errors such as nearsightedness. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Most adults develop a form of far-sightedness called presbyopia as they get older.
  • Radical eye surgery promises to cure short-sightedness.
  • Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • The company makes medical devices that use laser technology for correcting nearsightedness and other eye disorders.

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