Sentence examples for presbyopic from inspiring English sources
"presbyopic" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an adjective meaning "the condition of having decreased ability to focus on near objects due to age". Example sentence: I recently had to buy glasses because I am becoming presbyopic.
adjective
Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.
Thus, a 60-year-old would not be able to read a book held at the convenient distance of about 40 centimetres (16 inches), and the extra power required would have to be provided by convex lenses in front of the eye, an arrangement called the presbyopic correction.
For the presbyopic, the handsome magnifying glass available at Cursive, a nook of a gift shop in Grand Central Terminal, is on a wheeled tripod and can be adjusted up and down, depending on your age — um, I mean, your height ($45).
Although fitting presbyopic patients with multifocal contacts is more complicated than fitting people without it, it's a good option for many, said Kathryn Richdale, a senior research associate also at the Ohio State College of Optometry.
There are two types of progressive computer lenses: those prescribed for computer use for older adults who are presbyopic and those prescribed for younger adults who are not.
"I see plenty of presbyopic patients, baby boomers who are frustrated because they always prided themselves on reading without glasses their whole life," said Dr. Salz, a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
A delicious exception has always been baseball, which hinges like no other sport on the earnest if (as many enthusiasts have noted) presbyopic interpretations of balls and strikes by the umpire.
Presbyopic computer users can find specially designed progressive lenses from Carl Zeiss Vision, including the Zeiss Business and Gradual RD lines, the Shamir Office lens from Shamir (which also sells a fatigue-relief lens) and the Seiko PCWide from Seiko Optical.
