Definitions
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- noun ophthalmology A treatment for
presbyopia in which one eye is treated to improve distance vision and the other eye is treated to improve close-up vision
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is called monovision and I actually use it now (I'm 43 now ..).
Home Theater Forum 2010
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One intriguing solution, known as 'monovision', is to give each eye a different contact lens - one for far, the other for near.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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By studying more precisely the conditions under which blurred edges are combined (across the two eyes and within one eye) our experiments - and the theoretical model that emerges - should shed new light on the basis of 'monovision', perhaps leading to improvements in diagnosis, treatment and prescription.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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とあるように、コンタクトレンズを着用するのではなく、永久的に自分の目を "monovision" 状態にしてしまおうという、LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusisの略でレーザー光線による近視手術という意味) やconductive Keratoplasty (伝導角膜形成術) といった手術まであるんです。
マイコミジャーナル マイコミジャーナル編集部 2010
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"monovision": one eye designed for distance vision, the other for reading.
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The optimum are mid-career folks with some seasoning to understand the pitfalls, while maintaining the desire to do something, but who aren't wizened to the point of monovision or being completely jaded.
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To me, The L Word is important simply because it departs from that monovision.
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Fortunately I am one of the few who can tolerate monovision contact lenses.
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It's also good for creating monovision in patients who have good distance vision to begin with.
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Already latent inside me, like the future 120 mph serve of a tennis prodigy, was the ability to communicate between the genders, to see not with the monovision of one sex but in the stereoscope of both.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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