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.

Industry: Eyewear; Health care

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Myokymia

Health care; Optometry

Common eyelid twitch typically brought on by stress or fatigue.

Trichiasis

Health care; Optometry

Condition in which the eyelashes grow inwardly (towards the eye).

Eye muscle paralysis. Causes include stroke, multiple sclerosis, a tumor, thyroid disease, migraines and progressive supranuclear palsies. Symptoms can include limited eye movement, blurred vision, ...

Diabetic maculopathy

Health care; Optometry

Eye disease related to diabetes that creates swelling and abnormal leakage of fluids and fats into the macula, where fine focusing and central vision occur. Because of the location of eye damage, ...

Collagen

Health care; Optometry

Fibrous protein in bones and connective tissue, it is also present in the eye. One type of vision correction surgery heats collagen around the edges of the cornea (which lets light into the eye). ...