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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Inflammation of tissue around the eye. Pre-septal cellulitis affects the lid and other "outer" areas of the eye, whereas orbital cellulitis affects the "inner" areas around the eyeball. Pre-septal ...

Sinusitis

Health care; Optometry

Inflammation of the sinuses, due to an infection or an allergic reaction. Probably the most common cause of pain in and around the eye. Symptoms include head pain (headache, pain around the eyes, ...

Leber's congenital amaurosis

Health care; Optometry

Inherited condition characterised by vision loss or blindness at birth or shortly thereafter. The exact cause is unknown, but doctors believe that the retina may degenerate, or that its ...

Blepharospasm

Health care; Optometry

Involuntary increased blinking that progresses to spasms in both eyes. The exact cause is unknown, but doctors believe it to be a central nervous system disorder. It can produce a functional ...

Hemifacial spasm

Health care; Optometry

Involuntary muscles twitches on one side of the face, typically caused by compression of the seventh (facial) cranial nerve by a neighbouring blood vessel somewhere in the brain.

Dacryoadenitis

Health care; Optometry

Inflammation of the tear gland, typically caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Symptoms include a dry eye, a red or pink eyelid, swelling of the lid or around the eyes and ptosis.

Laser Epithelial Keratomileusis (LASEK)

Health care; Optometry

Procedure that is similar to LASIK, except that the surgeon cuts a flap in the epithelium only, instead of through the epithelium and part of the stroma. LASEK is used mostly for people with thin or ...