myopic astigmatism

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Astigmatism in which one meridian is myopic while the one at a right angle to it is without refractive error.

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But trying to impose such order by chasing away informal commerce and culture is myopic.
Great Cities are Born Filthy|Will Doig|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is the myopic and solipsistic vantage point of the crotch.
Bobby Womack’s Sexual Democracy: The Late Soul Legend Preached Mutual Pleasure|David Masciotra|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But, the essay is also myopic—once again exaggerating Jewish guilt and minimizing Palestinian blame and responsibility.
What Beinart Overlooks in His 'American Jewish Cocoon' Article|Gil Troy|September 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is a function of their myopic passion that they think of the Russian Empire as a pawn in their game.
The Chechen Grievance: Tolstoy’s ‘Hadji Murad’ After Boston|Benjamin Lytal|April 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST

There is something imposing and demanding in the myopic claims of these characters.
Smoked Fish Surrealism: Ben Katchor’s Comics of NYC Neurotics|Jacob Siegel|March 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The most myopic of creatures could have seen that Anne was foolishly in love with her rascal husband.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Also, nature had conspired against Henry by handing him with a pair of hopelessly myopic eyes.
Time Enough at Last|Lyn Venable
When a child holds his head to one side constantly on looking at objects, astigmatism, an error of eyesight, is usually indicated.
The Mother and Her Child|William S. Sadler
Thus it happens frequently in divergent strabismus, when one eye is myopic, the other emmetropic.
Schweigger on Squint|C. Schweigger
For near objects the myopic eye is used without accommodation and therefore also without convergent strabismus of the right.
Schweigger on Squint|C. Schweigger