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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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Optometry

Amsler grid

Eyewear; Optometry

A handheld chart featuring equally spaced horizontal park and vertical lines, usually white on black background, used to detect central visual field defects.

Phakic

Eyewear; Optometry

Meaning that the natural crystalline lens of the eye is present.

Freeradical

Eyewear; Optometry

Molecules that have been implicated as one causative factor in the stimulation of abnormal cellular reproduction (cancer) and cellular destruction (aging).

Aniseikonia

Eyewear; Optometry

Aniseikonia is a binocular condition in which left and right images differ in size or shape. There are two types of aniseikonia – static and dynamic aniseikonia. The first type is the classical ...

Phakic intraocular lens (P-IOL)

Eyewear; Optometry

Also known as Intraocular Contact Lens. This is a tiny plastic lens that is placed inside the eye in front of the natural crystalline lens to provide additional refractive change. A Phakic ...

Anisometropia

Eyewear; Optometry

The absence of refractive error symmetry between both eyes. If one person's eye has a refractive error that is more than one diopter greater than the other, it is called anisometropia.

Phi-motion angiography

Eyewear; Optometry

Phi-motion angiography employs a scanning laser to capture rapid-sequence images of blood vessels underlying the retina.

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