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MIXED ASTIGMATISM

\mˈɪkst ɐstˈɪɡmətˌɪzəm], \mˈɪkst ɐstˈɪɡmətˌɪzəm], \m_ˈɪ_k_s_t ɐ_s_t_ˈɪ_ɡ_m_ə_t_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\

Definitions of MIXED ASTIGMATISM

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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that in which one principal meridian is myopic and the other hyperopic.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A form of astigmatism in which myopia exists in one principal meridian and hypermetropia in the other.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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