The change in form of the myopic eye diminishes its mobility, associated movements of the eyes may be replaced by turning the head, but this is not possible for the movement of convergence.
Still the elastic tension of the ocular muscles decides even here; if the interni preponderate, convergent squint results, when the myopic eye is used for near objects, the emmetropic for distant ones.
This defect is undoubtedly hereditary to a certain degree, but it is doubtful if, other conditions being favorable, any man would give up a girl because she is myopic or vice versa.
And where both the man and the woman are stronglymyopic some hesitation should be felt in contracting a marriage.
These are more vocal than the myopic quadrupeds, and I have had some success in conversing with them, but my results still await a more leisurely semantic interpretation.
They say that neither they nor the myopic quadrupeds are the dominant race here, but rather a large grublike creature lacking a complete outer covering.
The right eye was myopic to an extent seldom seen, and at the moment was so severely inflamed by neuritis that the danger of an affection to the retina seemed imminent,--the left was entirely blind.
Long, lanky black hair hung on either side of his face, and his prominent, myopic eyes gave him a sort of dreamy, absent look.
And he is often damned as a myopic decadent whose insensibility to pure line and deficiency in constructional power have been elevated by his admirers into sorry virtues.
This too convenient appellation must not class him with such myopic miniaturists as Meissonier.
When both parents are myopic Mr. Bowman has observed the hereditary tendency in this direction to be heightened, and some of the children to be myopic at an earlier age or in a higher degree than their parents.
What had that myopic and taciturn man found in Hilda to gladden a short visit to England between his life on the Orinoco and his intended life at the back of the uncharted Amazons?
She was able to forget Harold's myopic wanderings in the pleasure of crabbing her youngest brother.
But John could stand no more of it and escaped to Galton, where he bought a bushel of lustrous ornaments for the Christmas tree that was even now being felled by Huggins in a coppice remote from Harold's myopic explorations.
Harold, who was examining withmyopic intensity the dressing-case.
Most noteworthy also is another fact,--the slowness of vision by a highly myopic eye.
As Hearn was probably the most myopic literary man that has existed, his own thoughts upon The Artistic Value of Myopia are of peculiar interest.
So all the movements of such a myopic person must be slow and careful, for he is in doubt about everything under foot, or even within reach of the hands.
But for a highly myopicperson there is no outward or forward looking.
To those who are expert in such things, the stare of the highly myopic eye is known to be not that of mental action and seeing, but of not seeing.
The description of Venice from the Campanile of St. Mark, that of Destitution in 'Captain Fracasse,' by Gautier are the capital results of myopic vision.
It would also be testament that life was bigger than his myopic perspective of it, beset, as he was, by tragedy.
Living in the centripetal domain of a myopic existence as everyone did he supposed that his hapless childhood would always be his point of reference, his vantage point, and also the multi-pointed obstacle of his life.
And as all creatures were myopic with similar perceptions and concluding sentiments their reality and world was in the social interaction of their species.
Regular men even had feelings and thoughts in some proportional quantity even if it were a degraded quality that was at the dictates of their myopic needs and agenda at the time.
For not having connections of family dwarf his imagination in financial and emotional obligations, his world was less myopic and this play with ideas was still rich within him.
A more myopic perspective would not have produced a full rendering of truth.
Concave glasses greatly assist the myopic eye; they cause a divergence of the rays of light before entering the pupil, and thus counteract the over-refractive condition of that organ.
The eyes of five rats examined gave the following result: Some were far sighted, others were hypermetropic and astigmatic, one was slightly myopic and one had mixed astigmatism.
And he is often damned as a myopic decadent whose insensibility to the pure line and lack of architectonic have been elevated by his admirers into sorry virtues.
His myopic vision, then, may have been his artistic salvation; he seems to rely as much on his delicate tactile sense as on his eyes.
Her companion, the gentleman of the myopic eyes and pale mustaches, was her niece's husband, De Courcy Lloyd.
It has crowned all by inventing the myopicscience of scientific management, whereby men are made to work at such speed, and with such rigid uniformity, that the mind is crazed, and the body is worn out twenty years before its time.
But the myopic leaders of the Athenian state could not see salvation in intelligence, they could only see it in hemlock.
Or again, the rays may be focused in front of the retina in one meridian, and directly on the retina in the other; this would be an example of nearsighted or myopic astigmatism.
In its myopic misconception of American conditions, Allied Europe indulged in grotesque misinterpretation of Mr. Wilson's hesitancy and mystic diplomacy.
It may be a myopic view, but it explains, in my judgment, much of the proletariat's amazing apathy toward the crucial national emergency.
These are names with which the English-reading world, enchanted by the myopic prominence given to the writings of Nietzsche, Treitschke and Bernhardi, are not familiar.
Thorn was looking at him earnestly with his great myopic eye, through a heavy glass mounted with a handle like a lorgnette.
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