How to Use astigmatism in a Sentence

astigmatism

noun
  • But my mother has wanted to be an astronaut all of her life and couldn’t because of an astigmatism.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 13 Oct. 2019
  • John was later derailed by astigmatism, which also required surgery.
    — Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The holiday season may pose a unique obstacle for people with astigmatism.
    — Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 21 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, people with astigmatism benefit from toric lenses.
    — Malana Vantyler, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Rath, who was born with ocular albinism, nystagmus, and astigmatism cannot play games unless screens are positioned inches from his face.
    — Grant Stoner, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Those glasses are real Not unlike this reporter, Beatriz has astigmatism.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2023
  • The laser can also correct astigmatism (an abnormal curvature at the front surface of the lens that causes blurry vision).
    — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
  • Prescription eyeglasses correct for focus and perhaps astigmatism, but those are just two ways that wavefronts can be distorted.
    — Sidd Bikkannavar, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2010
  • The machine picked up a pretty significant astigmatism, which causes blurry vision.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The machine can see how the eyes are focusing to check for conditions such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Eye damage can lead to cataracts, macular degeneration, and astigmatism.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
  • Fichman operates from what looks like a command center that displays images of the eye and makes calculations to break up the cataract with laser energy and address astigmatism.
    — Jake Dressler, Hartford Courant, 7 Oct. 2022
  • But these astigmatism-correcting lenses can be implanted during traditional or laser surgery, Akpek said.
    — Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Other types of cataract surgery lenses that are not covered by Medicare include toric (for astigmatism) and multifocal, which can correct both near and distance vision.
    — Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 26 July 2023
  • Some correct for distance vision, some correct both near and distance vision (a multifocal lens), and others (toric lenses) correct astigmatism.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Keratoconus often causes high degrees of irregular astigmatism, which is an imperfection in the curvature of the cornea that leads to blurry vision.
    — Neelam Patadia, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
  • Last year, Kiké Hernández did the same thing after discovering astigmatism (a condition caused by imperfections in the curvature of the eye that can impact vision) in his own right eye.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
  • Myopia is when someone can see objects close-up but their vision becomes blurred when looking at objects farther away, and astigmatism is a condition in which either the eye’s cornea or lens has a different shape than normal, causing blurred vision.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Contact lenses can be worn to correct a variety of vision conditions, such as myopia, or nearsightedness; hyperopia, or farsightedness; and astigmatism.
    — Tiffany Yannetta, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism are other forms of refractive errors.
    — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Benefits of eye surgery include improvement of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
    — Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
  • For example, doctors can use lasers instead of cutting eye lenses manually, offer multifocal eye lenses that can eliminate the need for glasses, or recommend the astigmatism fix that Green said she was sold.
    — Lauren Weber, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • It is intended to help optometrists better pinpoint the lenses needed to correct astigmatism, a common imperfection in the eye’s curvature that can make vision blurry and happens to run in Plekhanov’s family.
    — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The system will address everything from astigmatism, to farsightedness, and nearsightedness, according to Patently Apple, which first spotted the patents.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2020
  • Glasses prescriptions typically include values for sphere, cylinder, axis and pupillary distance, indicating the lens power, astigmatism correction and the distance between the eyes.
    — Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Functional vision goes way beyond simple problems such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, instead relating to the way the eyes function together and send visual information to the brain for processing.
    — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, common side effects of laser eye surgery include dry eyes and temporary vision disturbances, with some patients more rarely affected by under- or over-corrections, astigmatisms and even potential loss of eyesight.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Benjamin Franklin would invent bifocals in 1874, Thomas Young would spot the uneven curvature of the cornea (astigmatism) in 1801, and steel wire would be developed in metal frames after 1837.
    — Daniel Fusch, Ascend Agency, 11 Nov. 2025

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