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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Sjogren's syndrome

Health care; Optometry

An inflammatory autoimmune disorder characterised by a dry mouth and dry eyes. Additional eye symptoms include burning, discharge, foreign body sensation, itching and light sensitivity.

Retinopathy of prematurity

Health care; Optometry

An eye disease common in premature babies that involves abnormal growth of blood vessels in the inner back of the eye (retina). Also known as ROP.

Lutein

Health care; Optometry

An antioxidant that is found throughout the body, but is concentrated in the macula. Lutein is believed to help protect the eyes from free radical damage caused by the sun's harmful rays.

Phakic

Health care; Optometry

An eye that still has its natural lens. When an eye is aphakic, usually the lens has been removed during cataract or other eye surgery.

Contact lens problem

Health care; Optometry

Contact lens problems can range from minor to sight-threatening, and include protein build-up, debris on the lens, a ripped or nicked lens, infections and more. Symptoms can include frequent ...

Geographic atrophy

Health care; Optometry

Deterioration of tissue in the central portion of the retina, often associated with aging. Geographic atrophy (GA) is considered the end stage of a "dry" form of age-related macular degeneration, ...

Keratoconus

Health care; Optometry

Degeneration and thinning of the cornea resulting in a cone-shaped bulge (a type of irregular astigmatism). The cause is unknown, but may be genetic. The first symptom is blurred vision that ...