6 Terms
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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.
Snellen visual acuity test
Eyewear; Optometry
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
Contrast sensitivity
Eyewear; Optometry
The ability to perceive differences between an object and its background.
