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What is 'Presbyopia ' ?

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(i) Due to ageing , ciliary muscles becoming weak and the eye-lens becoming rigid (inflexible), the eye loses its power of accommodation.
(ii) Because of this, an aged person cannot see the nearby objects clearly . So, it is also called as 'old age hypermetropia'.
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