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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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Antimetropia
Eyewear; Optometry
A condition in which one eye is myopic and the fellow eye is hyperopic.
Pinguecula
Eyewear; Optometry
A yellowish spot seen on the white of the eye at the junction of the clear cornea and white sclera of the eye. These lesions are usually caused by ultraviolet radiation. The white surface of the eye ...
Hemeralopia
Eyewear; Optometry
Day blindness. Loss of one half of the visual field in one or both eyes. Often caused by clouding or opacity of one or more of the normally clear ocular tissues.
Antioxidants
Eyewear; Optometry
Micro-nutrients which destroy or neutralise free radicals. Molecules which have been implicated as one causative factor in the stimulation of abnormal cellular reproduction (cancer) and cellular ...
Pinhole glasses
Eyewear; Optometry
Used in a diagnostic setting to differentiate whether reduced vision is secondary to uncorrected refractive error or to disease/amblyopia. By eliminating the peripheral light rays and concentrating ...
Higher order aberration (HOA)
Eyewear; Optometry
A common eye examination and refraction evaluates low order aberrations (LOA). These are commonly called sphere (myopia or hyperopia) and cylinder (astigmatism). Only a wavefront diagnosis is able to ...
