Em`me*tro"pi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. in measure, proportioned, suitable ( in + measure) + , , eye.] Med.

That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.

 

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