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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ReZoom

Eyewear; Optometry

The brand name for the ReZoom multifocal intraocular lens. The ReZoom lens is used with cataract surgery and Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE). The potential advantage of any multifocal lens is the ...

Visian ICL

Eyewear; Optometry

P-IOL manufactured by STAAR Surgical. See Visian ICL Details.

YAG laser

Eyewear; Optometry

YAG is an abbreviation for neodymium yttrium-aluminum-garnet, the material used generate a short pulsed, high-energy light beam in the infra red wavelength of 1064 nm. The YAG laser is a surgical ...

A scan

Eyewear; Optometry

Ultrasonic procedure to measure specific areas within the eye.

American Board of Eye Surgeons (ABES)

Eyewear; Optometry

Ophthalmologist certification organization. Affiliated with the American College of Eye Surgeons. Click here to go to website.

American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO)

A medical specialty board that administers a 1-1/2 year long education and examination process for ophthalmologists. After an ophthalmologist has passed the examination, (s)he is "Board Certified". ...

PERK Study

Eyewear; Optometry

A multi-center study of radial keratotomy (RK) outcomes funded by the National Eye Institute. Ten-year results of RK patients who had the surgery in 1983 were published in Archives of Ophthalmology ...