Biology GCSE
myopia and hyperopia
What myopia and hyperopia means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of myopia and hyperopia
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Conditions where light fails to focus precisely on the retinal plane, with distant objects blurred in the first and close objects blurred in the second.
Topics that use myopia and hyperopia
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