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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Uvea

Health care; Optometry

Middle layer of the eye, below the limbus, and consisting of the iris, ciliary body and choroid.

Lateral rectus muscle

Health care; Optometry

Muscle that moves the eye away from the nose.

Migraine

Health care; Optometry

Severe headache, sometimes accompanied by nausea and visual disturbances. Visual disturbances alone are also possible; this problem is called an ophthalmic migraine, or migraine without headache. ...

Botulism

Health care; Optometry

Serious illness from a toxin produced by Clostridium bacteria (usually Clostridium botulinum). Infant botulism and food-borne botulism are the most common forms in the United States. Symptoms ...

Vitreous detachment

Health care; Optometry

Separation of the vitreous from the retina, caused by age-related vitreous shrinkage. Floaters are the typical symptom, but some people experience flashes of light as the vitreous tugs or causes ...

Central island

Health care; Optometry

Refractive surgery complication in which the laser leaves an "island" of corneal tissue in the concave ablation zone. Symptoms include double vision and distortion. Read more about potential ...

Conductive Keratoplasty (CK)

Health care; Optometry

Rocedure in which a surgeon uses radio waves to heat collagen in the cornea's periphery to shrink it and reduce hyperopia (farsightedness). CK is also used to treat presbyopia. Read more about CK.