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Presbyopic lens exchange (PRELEX)

Eyewear; Optometry

The term Presbyopic Lens Exchange (PRELEX) was created to describe a Refractive Lens Exchange with an intraocular lens designed to accommodate presbyopia.

Corrective lenses that have two powers of correction. Typically the majority of the lens is corrected for distance vision while a small are is corrected for near vision. Bifocals and trifocals are ...

Orbit

Eyewear; Optometry

Also know as the "globe", the structural area of the facial skeleton into which the eye is set.

Age related macular degeneration (ARMD)

Eyewear; Optometry

Destruction and loss of the photoreceptors in the macula region of the retina resulting in decreased central vision and, in advanced cases, blindness.