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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Hypobaric

Eyewear; Optometry

Environment with a decrease of atmospheric pressure, such as at high altitude.

Aqueous humour

Eyewear; Optometry

Clear watery fluid that flows between and nourishes the lens and the cornea. It is secreted by the ciliary processes.

Two or more images. Monocular polyopia would be when a person sees multiple images in one eye. Monocular polyopia is commonly described as ghosting or providing a ghost image. Binocular polyopia is ...

Argon laser

Eyewear; Optometry

Laser light produced from argon gas. The main wavelengths are 488.0 nm blue and 514.5-nm pea green light, but nine separate wavelengths in the blue-green visible light spectrum are produced.

Implantable collamer lens (ICL)

Eyewear; Optometry

Descriptive trade name for the STAAR Myopic Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) indicated for the correction of high refractive error and is intended for placement behind the iris in the posterior ...

Asthenopia

Eyewear; Optometry

Subjective symptoms or distress arising from the use of the eyes; as in eyestrain.

Posterior capsular opacification (PCO)

Eyewear; Optometry

Opacification of the posterior lens capsule. Sometimes called a "secondary cataract". Often a consequence of modern cataract surgery. It occurs when a thin membrane of tissue grows over the remaining ...