Friday, May 04, 2007

Astig!-matism

Due to the recent medical examination here in our company, the doctor discovered that I have an astigmatism and because of that I have to wear an eye glass which is good but sometimes, dahil hindi nga ako sanay ng nakasalamin ayun! nakakailang...


From Wikipedia:

Astigmatism is an affliction of the eye, where vision is blurred by an irregularly shaped cornea. The cornea, instead of being shaped like a sphere, is more oval-like and reduces the cornea's ability to focus light. Astigmatism is a refractive error of the eye in which there is a difference in degree of refraction in different meridians. So, rather than the surface topology of the eye being spherical, it has two curves, one steeper than the other, in a similar way to the shape of an oval. The condition is typically characterized by an aspherical, non-figure of revolution cornea in which the corneal profile slope and refractive power in one meridian is greater than that of the perpendicular axis. Astigmatism causes difficulties in seeing fine detail, and can often be corrected by prosthetic lenses with a cylindrical lens (i.e. a lens that has different radii of curvature in different planes), contact lenses, or refractive surgery.

3 comments:

diana said...

i have astigmatism too. and yah it sucks. I usually wear my glasses at home lang becasue it makes me triple masungit tingan.

dont worry dabe, sometimes women find geeks sexy. :)hahaha!

Dave Vincent said...

meron ka din? aba'y pareho pala tayong Astig! wakokokokokoko

diana said...

pareho tayong geek loko.