Usually means: Nearsightedness; difficulty seeing distant objects.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. myopia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. myopia: Merriam-Webster
  3. myopia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. myopia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. myopia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. myopia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Myopia, myopia: Wordnik
  8. myopia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. myopia: Wiktionary
  10. myopia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. myopia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. myopia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. myopia: Dictionary.com
  14. myopia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Myopia (Agnes Obel album), Myopia (Agnes Obel studio album), Myopia (Tom Fogerty album), Myopia (disambiguation), Myopia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Myopia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. myopia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. myopia: Rhymezone
  19. Myopia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. myopia: FreeDictionary.org
  21. myopia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. myopia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. myopia: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. myopia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. myopia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Myopia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Myopia (nearsightedness): Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  10. Myopia: LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary
  11. Myopia: Visionary
  12. myopia: Laser Eye Surgery
  13. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  14. myopia: Medical dictionary
  15. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. Myopia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. 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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