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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Functional visual disability

Eyewear; Optometry

The degree to which a visual error interferes with a person’s ability to perform normal daily activities, such as, reading, driving at night, or performing hobbies.

Phoropter

Eyewear; Optometry

An optical instrument containing many lenses which is used to determine the required power of glasses or refractive error.

Fundus

Eyewear; Optometry

The interior lining of the eyeball, including the retina, optic disc, and macula. This portion of the inner eye can be seen during an eye examination by looking through the pupil. G

Photoablation

Eyewear; Optometry

The "cold" process of tissue removal which occurs with excimer laser radiation in the 200nm wavelength range. This far-ultraviolet wavelength possess light photons so powerful that the molecular ...

Gaussian

Eyewear; Optometry

This is a profile of how excimer energy is applied. Used primarily on flying spot lasers, more energy is applied to the centre of the spot than at the outer edges.

Photocoagulation

Eyewear; Optometry

The process of tissue destruction accomplished by visible light radiation. Tissue is broken down by the light and "clots" as if it were cooked.

This is a common term for double images. If you look at a clock and some of the numbers have a lighter ghost image just off to the side, this is ghosting. Detailed Double Vision and Ghosting After ...