The eye in the newborn is:: (A) Hypermetropic with regular astigmatism, (B) Hypermetropia, (C) Hypermetropic with irregular astigmatism, (D) Myopia
Answer is B. At bih, eye is hypermetropic by +2 to +3D and usually becomes emmetropic by the age of 5 to 7 years This is because of smaller eyeball Eyeball length at bih is 16mm.