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A refractive error, or refraction error, is an error in the focusing of light by the eye and a frequent reason for reduced visual acuity.

Epidemiology


The global prevalence of refractive errors has been estimated from 800 million to 2.3 billion*.

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An eye that has no refractive error when viewing a distant object is said to have emmetropia or be emmetropic. An eye that has a refractive error when viewing a distant object is said to have ametropia or be ametropic.

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