As Karen reads her psychology textbook, the words on the page seem to be focused and then become fuzzy. After an hour of struggling to read her textbook with some of the words in focus and other not, she has developed a severe headache. When her eye doctor examines her eyes, he finds that her lenses are misshapen. Karen has which visual problem?

a. myopia
b. hyperopia
c. astigmatism
d. presbyopia


C

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