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Descriptor English: Myopia
Descriptor Spanish: Miopía
Descriptor miopía
Scope note: Error de refracción en el que los rayos luminosos que entran en el OJO paralelos al eje óptico son enfocados por delante de la RETINA cuando la acomodación (ACOMODACIÓN OCULAR) está relajada. Se debe a la presencia de una CÓRNEA muy curvada o de un globo ocular demasiado largo de delante a atrás. También se denomina vista corta. 
Descriptor Portuguese: Miopia
Descriptor French: Myopie
Entry term(s): Myopias
Nearsightedness
Nearsightednesses
Tree number(s): C11.744.636
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009216
Scope note: A refractive error in which rays of light entering the EYE parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the RETINA when accommodation (ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR) is relaxed. This results from an overly curved CORNEA or from the eyeball being too long from front to back. It is also called nearsightedness.
Annotation: MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 9408
Unique ID: D009216
NLM Classification: WW 320
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2004/07/07
Myopia - Preferred
Concept UI M0014358
Scope note A refractive error in which rays of light entering the EYE parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the RETINA when accommodation (ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR) is relaxed. This results from an overly curved CORNEA or from the eyeball being too long from front to back. It is also called nearsightedness.
Preferred term Myopia
Entry term(s) Myopias
Nearsightedness
Nearsightednesses



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