A refractive error in which rays of light entering the EYE parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the RETINA when accommodation (ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR) is relaxed. This results from an overly curved CORNEA or from the eyeball being too long from front to back. It is also called nearsightedness.
    

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The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Engraving by F. Legat, 1805, after T. Stothard.

The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Engraving by E. Mitchell, 1805, after J. Northcote.

Myopia and the control of eye growth / [editors, Gregory R. Bock and Kate Widdows].

Die Verhütung der Kurzsichtigkeit durch Reform der Schulen / von A. Treichler.

Mittheilungen aus der Ophthalmiatrischen Klinik in Tübingen / herausgegeben von Albrecht Nagel.

Disquisitio physico-mathematica de presbytis et myopibus ... / publicè ventilandam exhibit, & pro virili defendet, Johannes Jacobus Scheuchzer.

Klinisch-statistische Beiträge zur Lehre von der Myopie / von Dr. Schleich.

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Myopia and the control of eye growth / [editors, Gregory R. Bock and Kate Widdows].

Die Verhütung der Kurzsichtigkeit durch Reform der Schulen / von A. Treichler.

Mittheilungen aus der Ophthalmiatrischen Klinik in Tübingen / herausgegeben von Albrecht Nagel.

Disquisitio physico-mathematica de presbytis et myopibus ... / publicè ventilandam exhibit, & pro virili defendet, Johannes Jacobus Scheuchzer.

Klinisch-statistische Beiträge zur Lehre von der Myopie / von Dr. Schleich.