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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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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.
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.