title: Emmetropization: a vision-dependent phenomenon.
abstract: Anomalous visual experience during development has been shown to induce myopia in several species of animals. A retrospective analysis of refractive error among humans subjected to various ocular anomalies that disrupt pattern vision revealed a significant degree of myopia. This result suggests that emmetropization is a vision-dependent phenomenon.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D009216:Myopia / Q000209:etiology*; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000209:etiology; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D014785:Vision, Ocular