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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Enophthalmos

Health care; Optometry

The sinking of the eye into the socket. Causes include development problems in utero, trauma and inflammation.

A dark or grey spot or speck that passes across your field of vision and moves as you move your eye. Floaters are very common and may look like clouds, strands, webs, spots, squiggles, wavy lines or ...

Corneal topography

Health care; Optometry

A corneal topographer shines light onto the surface of the eye, then measures the reflected light to create a map of the cornea's curvature as well as any irregularities. The map is used for ...

Pseudoexfoliation syndrome

Health care; Optometry

A condition of unknown cause in which light gray, dandruff-like material forms on the pupil margin and anterior lens capsule in the eye. This material also can lodge in the trabecular meshwork, ...

Pseudotumor cerebri

Health care; Optometry

A condition whose symptoms mirror those of a brain tumor: increased intracranial pressure, headache, nausea, brief periods of vision loss (graying or blurring) and double vision. The cause is ...

Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis

Health care; Optometry

A condition characterised by episodes of recurrent inflammation of the superior cornea, the junction between the cornea and the sclera (the limbus), and the conjunctiva lining the superior sclera and ...

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR)

Health care; Optometry

A common complication of surgery for retinal detachment, which causes scarring of the retina. PVR may require a vitrectomy and intricate surgical removal of scar tissue.