Translation of "Long-sightedness" in German

The shorter the eye, the greater the long-sightedness and the associated blurriness.

This amounts to cultural penalisation caused by historic long-sightedness in the process of European integration itself: our Europe continues to be purely north-facing.

Thin to very thin lenses are taken to mean lenses having a central thickness of 0.04 to 0.15 mm in the case of design for negative lenses (for correction of short-sightedness), 0.08 to 0.4 mm in the case of positive lenses (for correction of long-sightedness) and 0.1 to 0.4 mm in the case of aphakia lenses (for correction of aphakia).

This treatment is usually performed with long-sightedness that is significantly higher than +4 dioptres (dpt.) or short-sightedness of more than -8 dpt.

Once your prescription sunglasses have been ordered by your optician, you'll receive them within 7 working days and your short-sightedness, astigmatism or even long-sightedness won't hold you back when doing sports!

The SUPRACOR procedure changes the refractive power of the eye in the area of the central cornea, while LASIK corrects the long-sightedness at the same time.

To coincide with the A+A 2013, the uvex safety group is launching safety spectacles with built-in dioptric correction for near vision which provide optimum protection for employees with presbyopia (age-related long-sightedness).

In young people, long-sightedness can be compensated for by changing the shape and, hence, the refractive power of the lens (accommodation).

Jakob has now been wearing his new prism glasses since September 2007. These spectacles have corrected both his long-sightedness and his astigmatism.

Furthermore, even if the ground prescription does not comprise prismatic correction, spectacle lenses may nevertheless exhibit transverse chromatic aberration owing to prismatic side-effects according to Prentice's rule for large viewing angles, even though the visual defect to be corrected is based on short-sightedness or long-sightedness.

For instance, a series of insert lenses, for correcting short-sightedness, long-sightedness and astigmatism, for example, can be used simultaneously.

The optical lenses can be designed to correct for short-sightedness, to correct for long-sightedness, as bifocal lenses or as progressive lenses.

Instances of ametropia such as myopia (short-sightedness), hyperopia (long-sightedness or far-sightedness) or astigmatism can nowadays be permanently corrected by refractive surgical treatment.

This method, which is the same as that for cataracts, is used exclusively on people with very severe defective vision, pre-existing lens clouding or age-related long-sightedness, or when implantation of additional lenses is not possible for anatomical reasons.

On the one hand, we can stand out ACUVUE company, focused on the correction of myopia and long-sightedness with soft contact lenses and throwaway, or even, frequent replacement for improving visual health.

Long-sightedness, or presbyopia, affects around 2 billion people worldwide, explained Novartis in a statement .

Thanks to the ACE / DRET system, the laser operates with a precision not previously achieved, particularly in astigmatism or just short-sightedness or long-sightedness

In reality the most frequent causes are inflammation of conjunctiva, allergic reactions, reddening caused by a combination of strained vision from watching television or from working at a computer, together with a badly co-ordinated eye defect (short-sightedness, long-sightedness).

In the case of Long-sightedness the cornea is ablated in a circle shape around the centre in order to heighten the centre of the curvature.

It is above all employees who suffer from long-sightedness, perhaps as a result of age-related presbyopia, who often have to make do with an uncomfortable compromise, such as wearing safety spectacles over the all-important reading glasses.