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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Slit lamp

Eyewear; Optometry

A microscope using various magnifications combined with a strong light that can be focused into a slit for examining the eye.

Monocular

Eyewear; Optometry

Involving one eye. As example, monocular polyopia is when a person sees multiple images in one eye.

Contact lens, toric

Eyewear; Optometry

Contact lenses designed to correct astigmatic refractive errors. Toric lenses are weighted to maintain a specific axis across the cornea.

The white chart with the big black E at the top and lines of letters that become increasingly smaller. The Snellen Test is one of many tests used to determine visual acuity. The term 20/20 means that ...

Monovision

Eyewear; Optometry

A technique to limit the effects of presbyopia by correcting one eye for near vision and the other for far vision. Detailed Lasik and NearVision CK Monovision