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Contributors in Eye surgery
Eye surgery
Automated perimeter
Eyewear; Optometry
A computer-driven device used to plot defects in the visual field. Usually the patient's head is placed into this large hemisphere shell. Various points of lights, sometimes of different sizes, ...
Barraquer cyro-lathe
Eyewear; Optometry
An instrument used in performing refractive surgery to correct extreme myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) or hyperopia (farsighted, longsighted vision).
Intraoperative
Eyewear; Optometry
Patient care procedures performed during the operation that are ancillary to the actual surgery. May include monitoring, fluid therapy, medication, transfusion, anesthesia, radiography, and/or ...
Basement membrane
Eyewear; Optometry
A membrane of tissue beneath the epithelium that helps adhere the epithelium to the Bowman's layer or stromal tissue.
Presbyopia
Eyewear; Optometry
Part of the normal process of aging. As a person becomes older, we begin to lose the flexibility of the natural crystalline lens of the eye and weakness of the ciliary muscle. Presbyopia actually ...
Intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS)
Eyewear; Optometry
Also know Intacs, small semicircular rings of plastic that are implanted in the mid-periphery of the cornea to correct myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) and/or keratoconus.
Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA)
Eyewear; Optometry
This is a measure of best acuity while wearing corrective lenses like glasses or contact lenses.
