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gabbro(medicine)
gabbro(encyclopedia)
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Nearsightedness (health) and gabbro (iou)


Nearsightedness (health)


Focusing defect in which the eye is overpowered. Light rays coming from a distant object are brought to focus before reaching the retina. Requires a minus lens correction to "weaken" the eye optically and permit clear distance vision.





gabbro (iou)



gabbro noun. Pl. -os. M19.
[Italian (Tuscan) from Latin glaber, glabr- smooth.]
A dark coarse-grained igneous rock of crystalline texture resembling dolerite and granite, and consisting largely of pyroxene (often as diallage), plagioclase feldspar, and often olivine.
ga'bbroic,
gabbro'itic adjectives L19.