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Explain the Term: Presbyopia

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Presbyopia: It is a condition affecting older people who cannot see near objects clearly. Their lens loses flexibility resulting in a kind of far-sightedness. This again is corrected by a convex lens.

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अध्याय 8: The Nervous System and Sense Organs - Explain the Terms

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आईसीएसई Biology [English] Class 10
अध्याय 8 The Nervous System and Sense Organs
Explain the Terms | Q 11

संबंधित प्रश्न

A student is unable to see clearly the words written on the blackboard placed at a distance of approximately 4 m from him. Name the defect of vision the boy is suffering from. Explain the method of correcting this defect.

Draw ray diagram for the:-

(i) defect of vision and also

(ii) for its correction.


List three common refractive defects of vision. Suggest the way of correcting these defects.


A person with a myopic eye cannot see objects beyond 1.2 m distinctly. What should be the type of the corrective lens used to restore proper vision?


the biological/technical terms for the lens of eye losing flexibility resulting in a kind of long-sightedness in middle aged people.


Name the defect of vision in a person: 

whose far point is less than infinity


 Which defect of vision can be rectified: 

by using a concave lens?


What is the other name of old age hypermetropia?


What is the far point of a person suffering from myopia (or short-sightedness)?


Explain with the help of labelled ray-diagram, the defect of vision called hypermetropia, and hot it is corrected by a lens. 


 A person having short-sight cannot see objects clearly beyond a distance of 1.5 m. What would be the nature and power of the corrective lens to restore proper vision?


The defect of vision which cannot be corrected by using spectacles is:
(a) myopia
(b) presbyopia
(c) cataract
(d) hypermetropia


Name the following:

The eye defect caused due to shortening of the eye ball from front to back.


Differentiate between members of the following pair with reference to what is asked in bracket.

Myopia and hyperopia (cause of the defect)


Given below is a diagram depicting a defect of the human eye. Study the same and answer the question that follow:

Name the defect shown in the diagram.


Draw a ray diagram to show how Hypermetropia is defect can be corrected using a lens.


Solve the following question:
The near point of the eye of a person is 50 cm. Find the nature and power of the corrective lens required by the person to enable him to see clearly the objects placed at 25 cm from the eye?


In what two whys is a yellow spot different from the blind spot?


Give Reason:

Why do we see clearly in the central region of the retina?


Give Technical Term:
The type of lens used to correct myopia is


Observe the figure whether it is correct or not and explain the phenomenon.


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