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Given below is diagram showing a defect of vision. Name the defect of vision and draw an accurate labelled diagram to correct this defect. - Science and Technology 1

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Given below is a diagram showing a defect of vision. Name the defect of vision and draw an accurately labelled diagram to correct this defect.

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Solution

Name of defect: Farsightedness or hypermetropia

Correction of Farsightedness:

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