With farsightedness, the eye is too short to focus light on the retina. This makes it easy to focus on distant objects, but not on images that are close.

This type of defective vision usually results from an eyeball which is too short or is a result of the loss of lens elasticity with age. A farsighted individual will see far objects well but needs corrective lenses (thicker in the middle) to see objects that are close.

Also known as "Hyperopia". People with farsightedness see things better at distance than at near. In the hyperopic eye, images are focused behind the retina. The hyperopic eye is often described as being too flat or too short.

Also know as hyperopia, is the opposite of myopia. Distant objects are clear and close up objects appear blurry. This condition is the result of an eye that is too short, or a cornea that lacks the necessary refractive power to focus on the retina.

Vision that results when the distance from the cornea to the retina is too short. This occurs when the eye that has a vertical oval shape, or it has a cornea that is flatter than normal. In either event, a person who is farsighted sees well at a distance but has poor reading vision. Those who are farsighted are usually born with the disorder.

abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects

A condition where the eyeball is too short and flat, so that light rays haven't yet focused when they reach the retina. The result is difficulty in seeing near objects clearly.

able to see objects in the distance more clearly than nearby objects

is the common term for hyperopia.

Hyperopia; ability to see distant objects more clearly than close objects; may be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, or LASIK.

Also known as hyperopia. It is the result of an eyeball that focuses light behind the retina. This may be due to the cornea being too flat or the eye being too short. The exact cause is not known, although farsightedness may be inherited. Go to Top

Also called hyperopia. To farsighted people, near objects are blurry, but far objects are in focus.

see Hyperopia

A common term for hyperopia, a vision problem that most commonly results in blurred close vision. Moderate to severe hyperopia may also result in blurred distance vision. The cornea and lens focus light rays behind, rather than directly on, the retina.

the inability to see near objects as clearly as distant objects. The need for accommodation to see even distant objects clearly, because the focusing power of the eye is too weak when the eye is not accommodating. Light rays come to focus behind the retina instead of on the retina when the eye is not accommodating.

Light entering the eye is focused past the retina, causing the image to be blurred. Essentially the eyeball is too long. {diagram

Also called hyperopia. To farsighted people, near objects have a geater potenial to result in blurriness and or eyestrain, while far objects are less likely to result in these same symptoms.

Also known as Hyperopia, the inability to see objects up close. It is the result of an eyeball that is too short or whose outside surface (the cornea) is too flat. The exact cause is not known, although farsightedness may be inherited. Go to Top | Close Window

A vision condition in which distant objects are usually seen clearly, but close ones do not come into proper focus. Occurs if your eyeball is too short or the cornea has too little curvature, so light entering your eye is not focused correctly. Also known as hyperopia.

People with farsightedness (hyperopia) have difficulty seeing objects close up. Farsightedness (Hyperopia) occurs when the eyeball is too short from front to back, or the eye's focusing mechanism is too weak, causing light rays to be focused behind, rather than on the retina. (Ref: Contact Lens Council)

A visual disorder whereby an image entering the visual system (the eye) lands behind the retina causing vision to be clearer at distances than up close

Also called hyperopia. A refractive error in which the light rays entering the eye are focused behind the retina, causing normal distance vision, but blurred vision up close. LASIK can help correct this disorder.

Also known as hyperopia. This means the objects which are close seems blurry and these patients are unable to focus.

A condition of the eye in which close-up vision is blurred. Farsightedness, also known as hyperopia, is caused by faulty light refraction in the eye; closer images do not focus clearly on the retina.

Hyperopia. A condition of the eye that most commonly results in blurred close vision although moderate to severe hyperopia may also result in blurred distant vision. The cornea and lens focus light rays from objects behind the retina. The LADARVision® is currently approved in the US to treat hyperopia and the only laser approved to treat mixed astigmatism.

If you have hyperopia, you actually have blurred vision at all distances; infants are normally farsighted and as the eye grows, the condition corrects itself naturally for most people. Presbyopia is often confused with farsightedness, but the cause is actually a hardening of the eye lens that comes with aging, making it more difficult to focus, most commonly on close-up objects. Bifocal contact lenses help with presbyopia

The ability to see distant objects more clearly than close objects. It is the result of an eyeball that is too short or whose outside surface (the cornea) is too flat. The exact cause is not known, although farsightedness may be inherited.

also called hyperopia; a refractive error in which the focal point for light rays is behind the retina; distant objects are seen more clearly than near objects

A vision problem in which close objects appear blurred while distant objects are seen clearly.