Home > Industry/Domain > Eyewear; Health care > Optometry

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

Astronomical telescope

Eyewear; Optometry

Compound optical system, afocal in normal adjustment, consisting of a positive objective element or group and a positive ocular element or group forming a magnified, inverted image.

Condensing lens

Eyewear; Optometry

A convex lens used to condense the illuminating beam into the patient's eye and to form a real inverted image of the retina thus illuminated.

Concave lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens which causes parallel incident light to diverge from a virtual focus. Also known as minus-power lens.

Abbe number

Eyewear; Optometry

Mathematical expression for determining the correction for chromatic aberration of an optical material of component.

Astigmatic difference

Eyewear; Optometry

Vertex power in the second principal meridian minus that in the first principal meridian.

Astigmatic effect

Eyewear; Optometry

Collective description of the cylindrical power and the cylinder axis.

Distance optical centre

Eyewear; Optometry

Optical centre of the distance portion.

Featured blossaries

Ukrainian judicial system

Category: Law   1 21 Terms

10 Bizarre ways Dreams and Reality Intersect

Category: Science   1 1 Terms