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Hyperopia

Known as: Long-sightedness, farsighted, Hyperopia [Disease/Finding] 
A refractive error in which rays of light entering the eye parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus behind the retina, as a result of the… 
National Institutes of Health

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Refractive Errors

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Visual Psychophysics and Physiological Optics Effects of Long-Wavelength Lighting on Refractive Development in Infant Rhesus Monkeys
Citation: Smith EL III, Hung L-F, Arumugam B, Holden BA, Neitz M, Neitz J. Effects of long-wavelength lighting on refractive… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Intraocular lens power calculation formulas in Chinese eyes with high axial myopia
Review
2001
Review
2001
Laser in situ keratomileusis after penetrating keratoplasty
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Photoperiod, early post-natal eye growth, and visual deprivation
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Polaroid photoscreening for amblyogenic factors. An improved methodology.
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Emmetropisation, squint, and reduced visual acuity after treatment.
In a sample of children used to assess the value of optical correction of hypermetropia from the age of 6 months the refraction… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Assignment of the gene for complete X-linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB1) to Xp11.3.
Review
1985
Review
1985
Progressive hyperopia with long-term follow-up of radial keratotomy.
A number of studies have documented the reasonable efficacy and safety of radial keratotomy, but most were based upon results… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Racial variations in vision.
This study determined the distributions of uncorrected visual acuity and of refractive error in representative groups of… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Dominantly inherited cystoid macular edema.
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