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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.

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Epithelium

Health care; Optometry

The cornea's outer layer of cells.

Corneal ring

Health care; Optometry

Type of vision correction surgery where a doctor inserts a tiny plastic ring into the cornea (which lets light into the eye). This ring reshapes the cornea, helping it to focus light better onto the ...

Exotropia

Health care; Optometry

When one or both eyes point outward; also called "walleyed. " This is one type of strabismus.

Vitrector

Health care; Optometry

Tiny, motorised cutting instrument used to remove the eye's gel-like vitreous during a vitrectomy.

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