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Requested move 25 May 2025

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FarsightednessHyperopia – Nearsightedness was recently moved to Myopia [1] as it is the more commonly used medical term (as per WP:MEDTITLE), so this would make the articles a matching pair.

Doing a similar test of "term + LASIK" on google scholar:

  • 15,900 hits for "hyperopia LASIK"
  • 12,100 hits for "hypermetropia LASIK"
  • 1,030 hits for "farsightedness LASIK"
  • 216 hits for "far-sightedness LASIK" (the old title for this article before it was moved to farsightedness)

Hypermetropia is also a reasonable contender, but less common from what I found, on google scholar overall (ie. without including LASIK) it had 21,500 results to hyperopia's 55,000. However, if someone can find solid evidence that it is more prevalent, I would be supportive of that change instead. LQ192 (talk) 08:53, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]