Anisometropia

/ˌænɪsoʊˈmɛtroʊpiə/ noun

A condition of the eye where the two eyes have significantly different amounts of refractive error, meaning one eye is much more nearsighted or farsighted than the other.

From Greek 'anisos' (unequal) + 'metron' (measure) + 'opia' (vision condition). The term emerged in 19th-century ophthalmology to describe this optical inequality between eyes.

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