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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Zyoptix

Eyewear; Optometry

The brand name for wavefront guided custom ablation on the Bausch & Lomb Technolas excimer laser.

Ephiphora

Eyewear; Optometry

A watering of the eyes due to excessive secretion of tears or to obstruction of the lacrimal passages.

Fraction commonly used to indicate normal vision. A bottom number larger than twenty indicates diminished vision. For example, a person with 20/400 vision would see a line of text that is twenty feet ...

Epikeratome

Eyewear; Optometry

A mechanical device similar to a microkeratome that uses a blunt separator rather than a sharp blade to produce an epithelial sheet for Epi-Lasik. Rather than a more destructive alcohol mixture to ...

Ablation

Eyewear; Optometry

Removal. In the case of the excimer laser, the frequency of energy causes the molecules of the cornea to loose the "glue" that holds them together. They simply fall away from each other and the ...

Ophthalmologist

Eyewear; Optometry

A medical doctor who specialises in the diagnosis and medical or surgical treatment of eye diseases. To become an ophthalmologist one must first obtain a medical degree (M.D. or D.O. in North ...

Endophthalmitis

Eyewear; Optometry

An inflammation within the eye. Inflammations may be caused by organisms such as bacteria or may be sterile as in immune disorders. Endophthalmitis usually indicates an infectious disease, but ...