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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Calhoun vision

Eyewear; Optometry

Manufacturer of light adjustable intraocular lens. Detailed Information Regarding Calhoun Light Adjustable Lens

Radial

Eyewear; Optometry

Pertaining to the radius or line from a circle centre to the circumference of the circle.

Lacrimal gland

Eyewear; Optometry

The small almond-shaped structure that produces tears; located just above the outer corner of the eye.

Canthus

Eyewear; Optometry

Demarcation between the sclera and nasal corner of the eye.

A surgical procedure that permanently alters the shape of the cornea by placing microscopically thin relaxing incisions in the peripheral cornea. The incisions cause the central portion of the cornea ...

Lagophthalmos

Eyewear; Optometry

The inability or difficulty closing one's eye. This can be caused by Bell's Palsy, trauma, neurosurgery, bacterial infection, stroke, and cosmetic surgery. Common symptoms are severe dry eye and ...

Cataract

Eyewear; Optometry

Also known as nuclear sclerosis. Cataracts are an opacity or clouding of the natural crystalline lens that may prevent a clear image from forming on the retina. Cataracts occur naturally and can be ...