
emmetropia
Sign in to saveEmmetropia is the state of vision in which a faraway object at infinity is in sharp focus with the ciliary muscle in a relaxed state. That condition of the normal eye is achieved when the refractive power of the cornea and eye lens and the axial length of the eye balance out, which focuses rays exactly on the retina, resulting in perfectly sharp distance vision. A human eye in a state of emmetropia requires no corrective lenses for distance; the vision scores well on a visual acuity test (such as an eye chart test).
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Research
2,344 papers- Emmetropia - The perfect imperfection.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2020
- Emmetropia.American journal of ophthalmology · 1951
- Origins of Refractive Errors: Environmental and Genetic Factors.Annual review of vision science · 2019
- Emmetropia.Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society · 1950
- Mechanisms of emmetropization and what might go wrong in myopia.Vision research · 2024
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Overview
- Emmetropization
- Etymology
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Emmetropia is the state of vision in which a faraway object at infinity is in sharp focus with the ciliary muscle in a relaxed state. That condition of the normal eye is achieved when the refractive power of the cornea and eye lens and the axial length of the eye balance out, which focuses rays exactly on the retina, resulting in perfectly sharp distance vision. A human eye in a state of emmetropia requires no corrective lenses for distance; the vision scores well on a visual acuity test (such as an eye chart test).
While emmetropia implies an absence of myopia, hyperopia, and other optical aberrations such as astigmatism, a less strict definition requires the spherical equivalent to be between −0.5 and +0.5 D and low enough aberrations such that 20/20 vision is achieved without correction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “emmetropia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.