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Astigmatism
What is astigmatism. Please explain the symptoms. I might have it but I don't understand if that's what I have. I sometimes feel uncontrolled movement of the eyeballs
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Astigmatism is a type of refractive error wherein you need cylindrical powered glasses to see things clear
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A sphere(circle) has 360 degrees and when the curvature of a sphere is equal at all degrees ,it is known as a sphere and number we call spherical. But when the curvature of the sphere is more or less at a particular angle or degree then it's known as astigmatsm and the number is called cylindrical number at a particular axis(angle)
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