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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Tonometry

Eyewear; Optometry

A procedure for the measurement of the fluid pressure inside the eye (intraocular pressure). One of the tests for glaucoma.

Crystalline lens

Eyewear; Optometry

The natural lens of the eye, located behind the iris, which helps bring rays of light to focus on the retina. The original state of the lens is transparent, but the lens becomes cloudy with age ...

Custom contoured ablation pattern (C-CAP)

The customization of laser vision correction treatments for decentered ablations and similar corneal aberrations. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Custom Contoured Ablation ...

Topographic supported customised ablation (TOSCA)

Eyewear; Optometry

A system to use a topographical mapping system to guide the laser during refractive surgery.

Custom cornea

Eyewear; Optometry

The trade name for the use of a wavefront guided custom ablation with the LADARVision excimer laser built by Alcon. Custom Wavefront Lasik Detailed Information.