Optometry

Optometry

A health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. The practice of eye and vision care.

Industry: Eyewear; Health care

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Central retinal vein

Eyewear; Optometry

The blood vessel that carries blood from the retina.

Refraction

Eyewear; Optometry

(1) A test to determine the best eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct a refractive error including myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision), hyperopia (farsighted, longsighted vision), or ...

Laser thermal keratoplasty (LTK)

Eyewear; Optometry

A non-excimer laser refractive surgery. The office-based instrument applies two rings of laser energy to the midperiphery of the cornea. Each ring gently heats collagen in the cornea to change ...

Refractive error

Eyewear; Optometry

The degree to which images received by the eyes are not focused on the retina, e.g.: myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism.

Chiron

Eyewear; Optometry

Ophthalmic equipment company. Click here to go to website.

A refractive surgery procedure for hyperopia and astigmatism that uses a probe to apply high frequency radio waves into the corneal tissue, causing shrinkage. This controlled shrinkage will reshape ...