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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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)

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. ...

Stereopsis

Eyewear; Optometry

The ability to perceive three-dimensional depth due to the distance between a person's two eyes.

Myopia

Eyewear; Optometry

Nearsightedness, short-sightedness (UK): A refractive condition in which light entering the eye is focused short of the retina, resulting in blurred image.

Cornea

Eyewear; Optometry

The outer, transparent, dome-like structure that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. The cornea provides approximately two-thirds of the optical power of the eye. Light passes into the eye ...