Does the human eye partially lose its ability of accommodation when it undergoes short-sightedness (myopia) or long-sightedness (hypermetropia)? If not, what might cause these defects of vision?
No, a person may have normal ability of accommodation and yet he may be myopic or htpermetropic. Infact, myopia arises when length of eye ball (from front to back) gets elongated and hypermetropia arises when length of eye ball gets shortened.