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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Anterior ocular segment

Eyewear; Optometry

The part of the eye anterior to the crystalline lens, including the cornea, anterior chamber, iris and ciliary body

Photovaporization

Eyewear; Optometry

The process of tissue destruction as occurs with infra red light radiation.

Halos

Eyewear; Optometry

A known complication of refractive surgery that causes images from light sources to blur with circles radiating out from the center. Halos also occur naturally without refractive surgery.

Anterior segment

Eyewear; Optometry

The part of the eye anterior to the crystalline lens including the cornea, anterior chamber, iris and ciliary body.

Haptics

Eyewear; Optometry

Extensions of plastic from the lens portion of an intraocular lens (IOL) that position and centre the IOL within the eye.

Pingecula

Eyewear; Optometry

A (usually) irritation caused by degeneration of the conjunctiva resulting in a thickening and yellowing of the normally thin transparent tissue.

An opacification or cloudiness of the normally clear cornea. Any build up of inflammatory infiltrates (white blood cells), extra moisture, scar tissue, or foreign substances (like drugs) can cause a ...