Etymology

monovision

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Today it means: A treatment for presbyopia in which one eye is treated to improve distance vision and the other eye is treated to improve close-up vision Full definition →

English vision ← Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)
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The story

  1. Ancient Greekμόνος (mónos)
  2. Ancient Greekμονο- (mono-)
  3. Englishmono-
  4. Englishvision
  5. English todaymonovision

From mono- + vision.

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