Usually means: Nearsightedness; difficulty seeing distant objects.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. myopia: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. myopia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. myopia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. myopia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. myopia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Myopia, myopia: Wordnik
  7. myopia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. myopia: Wiktionary
  9. myopia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. myopia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. myopia: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. myopia: Dictionary.com
  13. myopia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Myopia (Agnes Obel album), Myopia (Agnes Obel studio album), Myopia (Tom Fogerty album), Myopia (disambiguation), Myopia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Myopia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. myopia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. myopia: Rhymezone
  18. Myopia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. myopia: Free Dictionary
  20. myopia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. myopia: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. myopia: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. myopia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Myopia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Myopia (nearsightedness): Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  9. Myopia: LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary
  10. Myopia: Visionary
  11. myopia: Laser Eye Surgery
  12. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  13. myopia: Medical dictionary
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Myopia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Myopia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See myopias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
noun:  (figurative) A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.

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