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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Optometry

An acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Laser light is different from ordinary light in that it is composed of one colour (wavelength) travelling in one direction ...

Reading glasses

Eyewear; Optometry

Spectacles that induce a small amount of myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision), also called plus lenses. Reading glasses, often called readers, are used temporarily by individuals who are ...

Laser assisted epithelium keratomileusis

Eyewear; Optometry

Laser Assisted Sub-Epithelium Keratomileusis (LASEK) is the detachment of the epithelium with the use of an alcohol solution that softens the epithelium and allows it to be rolled back into a flap. ...

Central island

Eyewear; Optometry

A complication of excimer laser assisted refractive surgery where the laser fails to remove a portion of cornea. If one views the concave area of the ablation like a lake, one can imagine an island ...

Really simple syndication (RSs)

Eyewear; Optometry

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML-based format for news distribution that includes headlines, summaries and links back to a publisher website for the full article. You load RSS news feeds ...

Laser assisted in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK)

Eyewear; Optometry

An advanced laser procedure combining ALK and PRK to reshape the central cornea, thereby decreasing or eliminating myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision), hyperopia (farsighted, longsighted ...