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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.

Contributors in Optometry

Optometry

Fixation

Eyewear; Optometry

Direction in which the patient is required to look during the test.

American College of Surgeons

Eyewear; Optometry

Medical membership organization. Members are called Fellows. Physicians who are members often use the acronym FACS after their name. Click here to go to website.

American Optometric Association (AOA)

Eyewear; Optometry

Optometric membership organization. Click here to go to website.

American College of Eye Surgeons (ACES)

Eyewear; Optometry

Ophthalmologist membership organization. Affiliated with the American Board of Eye Surgeons. Click here to go to website.

Preferred Provider organisation (PPO)

Eyewear; Optometry

A medical or vision insurance plan that entices beneficiaries to use only the facilities and physicians who have contracted with the plan to provide services to beneficiaries by creating a financial ...

PresVIEW

Eyewear; Optometry

Surgical treatment for presbyopia owned by Refocus Group, Inc., and partnered with CIBA Vision for distribution. PresVIEW has received European CE Mark approval for the PresVIEW Scleral Incision ...

ReSTOR

Eyewear; Optometry

The brand name for the AcrySof ReSTOR apodized multifocal intraocular lens. The ReSTOR lens is used with cataract surgery and Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE). The potential advantage of any multifocal ...

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