noun
- Plural of emmetrope; people whose eyes have normal refractive power, allowing light to focus precisely on the retina without corrective lenses.
Usage: medical/optometry term; contrasts with myopes (nearsighted) and hyperopes (farsighted)
Examples
- Emmetropes typically do not require glasses or contact lenses for distance vision.
- The study compared visual acuity between emmetropes and myopes.
- Most emmetropes can see clearly at all distances without optical correction.
- The ophthalmologist identified the patient as one of the emmetropes in the control group.
- Emmetropes have a refractive error of approximately zero diopters.