emmetropia

1. 1.

   (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina

   Broaderphysical condition

   ophthalmology

Other forms of emmetropia

plural

emmetropias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about emmetropia

What does emmetropia mean?

emmetropia means "(ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina".

How many syllables are in emmetropia?

emmetropia has 5 syllables: em-me-tro-pi-a. The stress falls on "tro".

Is emmetropia a common word?

emmetropia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.