Como dizer "miopia" em inglês

Milton

Miopia em inglês é myopia.

Creio que "short sightedness" pode ser uma limitação qualquer, relacionada à miopia ou não.

Short sightedness - Eu vejo em muitos textos britanicos que essa palavra significa miopia.

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Short-sightedness


This factsheet is for people who are short-sighted, or who would like information about it.

The medical term for short-sightedness is myopia. This means that you can't focus on distant objects, which makes them look blurred. Myopia is very common and tends to run in families.

Around five million people in Britain are short-sighted. The condition usually develops in childhood or adolescence and is often first noticed at school.

Short -sighted (Pessoas miopes)


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Tem razão, Renatho, são sinônimos. Uma outra forma também é: nearsightedness.

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See you flavia
kisses.
bye.

Noting, nevertheless, that there is some difference between:

"this government's myopic policy... [and]
"this government's shortsighted policy...

The first one is more caustic, and people with bad eyesight might protest that they feel slighted by the characterization...

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