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  • Diopter: Unit of lens refractive power, equal to the reciprocal of the lens focus length in meters.
     

  • Hyperopia: Farsightedness
     

  • Myopia: Nearsightedness
     
  • Presbyopia: Inability to accommodate focus difference between distance vision and near (reading)
 

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