EYELID CLOSURE CAUSES MYOPIA IN HUMANS

被引:140
作者
OLEARY, DJ
MILLODOT, M
机构
[1] Laboratory of Experimental Optometry, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff
来源
EXPERIENTIA | 1979年 / 35卷 / 11期
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10.1007/BF01962795
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Humans with unilateral ptosis are more myopic in the closed eye than in the normal eye. The effect seems unrelated to visual loss. In pairs of humans ranked for sleep and myopia, the more myopic tends to slepp the more. We conculude that eylid closure causes myopia. © 1979 Birkhäuser Verlag.
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