Eye surgery

Eye surgery

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Eye surgery

The distance between the top of one wave and the top of the next wave. The length of one complete wave of the argon fluoride excimer laser is 193 nm. This wavelength is in the far ultraviolet end of ...

Dystrophy

Eyewear; Optometry

The term used to describe a wasting or weakening of biological material, such as corneal endothelial dystrophy (also known as Fuch's Dystrophy) being the wasting or weakening of the endothelium. E

Wavefront

Eyewear; Optometry

A technology used in optics that is able to determine and measure high order aberrations. These aberrations directly relate to an individual's quality of vision. Conventional eye examinations can ...

Ectasia

Eyewear; Optometry

An outward bulging of the cornea due to internal pressures and/or a cornea weakened by surgery.

Wavefront supported corneal ablation (WASCA)

Eyewear; Optometry

Trade name of the Carl Zeiss Meditec WASCA aberrometer and the MEL 70 or MEL 80 excimer laser system when used for wavefront guided excimer laser ablation for Lasik, All-Laser Lasik, PRK, LASEK, and ...

Emmetropia

Eyewear; Optometry

Refractive condition in which no refractive error is present and distant images are focused sharply on the retina with no need for corrective lenses. Perfect vision or 20/20.

With-the-rule astigmatism

Eyewear; Optometry

With the rule astigmatism has an axis of about 180 degrees (when Rx is written in minus cylinder form). "Against the rule" astigmatism has the axis at about 90 degrees. Both forms are common. ...