n :  a condition in which visual images come to a focus behind the retina of the eye and vision is better for distant than for near objects - called also farsightedness , hypermetropia  hy*per*opic adj 
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  hy·per·ope  pre·op   prep  PrP 
 
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