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SHORT SIGHT

Specialty Definition: SHORT SIGHT

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Medicine

Visual disorder which occurs when the refractive power of the eyes is too strong, with the result that the focal plane of the image is in front of the retina and that only objects close to the eyes appear to be in focus. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SHORT SIGHT

Language Translations for "SHORT SIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏قصر النظر (near sightedness). (various references)

   

Danish

  

nærsynethed (myopia, shortsightedness). (various references)

   

French

  

myopie (shortsightedness). (various references)

   

German

  

Myopie (myopia), Kurzsichtigkeit (myopia, near sightedness, nearsightedness, purblindness, shortness of sight, shortsightedness, short-sightedness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μυωπία (myopia, near sightedness, purblindness, short-sightedness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rövidlátás (myopia, near sight, near sightedness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

miopia (myopia, nearsightedness, shortsight, short-sightedness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortshay ightsay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

miopia (myopia, near-sightedness). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

miopie (mouse sight, myopia, near sight, short-sightedness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

близорукость (myopia, near sight, nearsightedness, shortsightedness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

miopía (myopia, near sightedness, shortness of sight, short-sightedness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

miyopluk (myopia, myopy, near sight, near sightedness, short-sightedness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SHORT SIGHT

Misspellings

"SHORT SIGHT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shortsight. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SHORT SIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-h-i-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: shortish.

-3 letters: hottish, sottish, thirsts.

-4 letters: ghosts, girths, griots, grists, griths, hights, hoists, horsts, ogrish, righto, rights, shirts, shorts, shotts, sights, thighs, thirst, tights, trigos, troths, tsoris.

-5 letters: ghost, giros, girsh, girth, girts, gists, griot, grist, grith, grits, gross, grots, highs, hight, hists, hoist, horst, hosts, right, riots, rotis, shirt, shist, shogs, short, shots.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-h-i-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: shortsighted.

 

+4 letters: forthrightness, shortsightedly, toothbrushings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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