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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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Munnerlyn formula
Eyewear; Optometry
Named for engineer Charles R. Munnerlyn, Ph.D, who pioneered the technology for vision correction based on the excimer laser. This is the basic formula to calculate the amount of tissue that needs to ...
Convergence/divergence
Eyewear; Optometry
The turning of the eyes simultaneously inwards/outwards so that they are both "aimed" towards the object being viewed
Starbursts
Eyewear; Optometry
A known complication of refractive surgery that causes images from light sources to blur with spikes radiating out from the center. Starbursts also occur naturally without refractive surgery.
Convex lens
Eyewear; Optometry
A lens with a bulging surface like the outer surface of a ball. Convex lenses are plus power lenses and are used to correct hyperopia or farsightedness. Also used for reading glasses as required for ...
Ablation zone
Eyewear; Optometry
The area of the cornea including the fully corrected optical ablation zone and the transition zone.
Ophthalmoscopy
Eyewear; Optometry
A non-surgical procedure using contact lenses to alter the shape of the cornea to effect a change in the refractive error.
