Presbyopia (Gr., 'old sight'), a change in the power of vision, not usually noticed till about forty-five years of age, when near objects come to be less distinctly seen than those at a distance. See EYE, Vol. IV. p. 512.
Presbyopia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 391
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