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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A large class of pharmaceutical agents that chemically resemble cholesterol. Two better known types are anabolic steroids often used in athletics, and glucocorticoid steroids that are used to reduce ...

Nanometer

Eyewear; Optometry

Abbreviation is nm. 10 to the -9 power meters. The term nanometer has replaced the term millimicron that was used before 1967.

Corneal abrasion

Eyewear; Optometry

A scratch or similar trauma to the outer surface of the cornea. Detailed Lasik Corneal Abrasion Information

Stiles-crawford effect

Eyewear; Optometry

The Stiles-Crawford effect (discovered in 1933) describes angular dependence of retinal sensitivity. Rays which enter the pupil near its center, which are parallel to retinal receptors, are more ...

Corneal collagen crosslinking with riboflavin

Eyewear; Optometry

Used as a therapeutic treatment for keratoconus and corneas that have become unstable or weak due to ectasia, Corneal Collagen Crosslinking with Riboflavin (CrossLinking) is a technique where the eye ...

Strabismus

Eyewear; Optometry

More commonly known as crossed-eyes, is a vision condition in which a person cannot align both eyes simultaneously under normal conditions. One or both of the eyes may turn in, out, up or down. An ...