Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Inequality of the eyes with respect to refractive power.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine A condition in which the two eyes of an individual have different refractive power.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. difference in the refractive power of the two eyes
Etymologies
- aniso- + Greek metron, measure; see meter1 + -opia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Quick Study: Acupuncture helps some kids with lazy eye
“The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two eyes, a condition called anisometropia.”
“The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two anisometropia.”
“The eyesight may even vary between an individual's two eyes, a condition called [[anisometropia]].”
“At 10 years after surgery, anisometropia remained far below the 7. 36-diopter baseline, at an average of 1.47 (range 0.75 to 3.24 diopters).”
“SAN FRANCISCO -- Refractive surgery provides good long-term outcomes for children and young teens when lasers are used to correct anisometropia, but problems arise over time after lens implantation, according to separate studies reported here.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anisometropia’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Logolepsy
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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
Many of these terms are archaic, or obsolete.
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Word of the day.
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-opia
denoting a visual disorder
myopia, presbyopia, diplopia, ametropia, anisometropia, asthenopia, deuteranopia, hyperopia, protanopia, tritanopia
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