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Manifest hyperopia
Total amount of hyperopia that can be neutralized by a convex lens without interfering with clarity of vision.
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Latent hyperopia
Hyperopia in which the error of refraction is overcome and disguised by ciliary muscle action.
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Facultative hyperopia
Hyperopia that can be corrected by accommodation.
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Axial hyperopia
Hyperopia caused by shortness of the eye’s anteroposterior axis.
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Absolute hyperopia
Hyperopia in which the eye cannot accommodate.
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Hyperneurotization
Grafting of a motor nerve into a muscle that has an intact nerve supply.
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Hypermyotrophy
Abnormal muscular development.
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Hypermorph
A person with disproportionately long limbs whose standing height is high in proportion to the sitting height.
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Hypermobility
Excessive joint play (movement) that permits increased mobility. It is present in some connective tissue diseases such as Marfan’s or Ehlers-Danlos syndromes. Extraordinary flexibility in the joints, enabling them to bend or move beyond their typical range of motion, is referred to as hypermobility.
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Hypermetaplasia
Overactivity in tissue replacement or transformation from one type of tissue to another, as cartilage to bone.
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