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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Cerebral palsy

Health care; Optometry

Group of chronic conditions caused by brain damage before birth or during infancy. The many effects may include poor muscle coordination/control, muscle weakness/tightness, involuntary movements, ...

Lens dislocation

Health care; Optometry

Full or partial displacement of the eye's lens. Dislocation is often caused by trauma to the eye or head, but may also be inherited or come as the result of certain systemic conditions, such as ...

Aviator glasses

Health care; Optometry

Glasses with a large, upside-down teardrop shape like the sunglasses that aircraft pilots have worn traditionally; they usually have a metal frame and large, tinted lenses, but they are also ...

Found in the light spectrum next to violet, which has the shortest wavelength of visible light. Also known as High Energy Visible (HEV) light, blue light has been linked to eye damage and diseases ...

Posterior capsular opacification

Health care; Optometry

Haziness that develops behind the artificial intraocular lens inserted during cataract surgery. A common complication following cataract removal, a PCO can be removed with a YAG laser capsulotomy.

Mucormycosis

Health care; Optometry

Fungal infection typically occurring in the sinuses or lungs and mainly acquired by those with compromised immune systems and by diabetics. Symptoms include sinusitis, eye and facial pain, fever, a ...