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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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Ciliary body

Eyewear; Optometry

The part of the eye that produces aqueous humor.

Regression

Eyewear; Optometry

A return by the cornea toward the original refractive state. See Regression Details

Lens

Eyewear; Optometry

A transparent double convex (outward curve on both sides) structure between the iris and the vitreous humor. Two structures of the eye focus light onto the retina. The first is the cornea or front ...

Ciliary muscles

Eyewear; Optometry

The muscles that relax the zonules to enable the crystalline lens to change shape for focusing.

Restasis

Eyewear; Optometry

An prescription eye drop with diluted cyclosporine anti-inflammatory used for the treatment of dry eye and other ocular conditions.

Lenticular astigmatism

Eyewear; Optometry

When the crystalline lens is not symmetrical. See Lenticular Astigmatism Details

Ciliary processes

Eyewear; Optometry

The extensions or projections of the ciliary body that secrete aqueous humor.

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