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Article: Presbyopia
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Presbyopia
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Presbyopia is a naturally occurring type of farsightedness in which the ability to see close objects clearly is reduced as people get older.
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Hyperopia
Ophthalmology
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As many adults pass age 40 or so, they find that it becomes harder to read newspapers and books. They start to hold these items farther away from their eyes than they had in the past, because they are trying to bring the print into focus. Eventually, as the joke goes, they find that their arms are too short. This condition is called presbyopia (pres-be-O-pe-a), which is from the Greek words meaning
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