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What is hypermetropia?

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Hypermetropia (or) Long sightedness : It is a vision defect in which a person can see the distant objects clearly but cannot see the nearby objects clearly.
Remedy (correction): A hypmetropic eye is corrected by using a convex lens of suitable focal lenght .
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