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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Retina

Eyewear; Optometry

The light sensitive layer of cells (rods and cones) on the inner back surface of the eye that converts light images into nervous impulses sent along the optic nerve for transmission to the brain.

An intraocular lens being developed by Calhoun Vision that can adjust its refractive power by the introduction of high frequency light waves into the eye. In theory, if a patient's refractive error ...

Clear lens exchange (CLE)

Eyewear; Optometry

Clear lens exchange, also known as refractive lens exchange (RLE), is essentially cataract surgery without the cataract. The crystalline lens is removed from the eye and replaced with a clear plastic ...

Retinal axons

Eyewear; Optometry

The nerve fibre extensions of the retinal photoreceptors that form the nerve bundle called the optic nerve.

Limbus

Eyewear; Optometry

The visible borderline between the clear cornea and the white sclera of the eye. The conjunctival layer that covers the globe also joins at the limbus.

Clear lens replacement (CLR)

Eyewear; Optometry

Clear lens replacement (CLR), also known as refractive lens exchange (RLE), is essentially cataract surgery without the cataract. The crystalline lens is removed from the eye and replaced with a ...

Retinal detachment

Eyewear; Optometry

A separation of the neural tissue of the retina from the pigmented epithelium layer and therefore the blood supply. Results in loss of vision in the detached area. Repairable with fair to good ...