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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Astigmatic keratotomy (AK)

Eyewear; Optometry

An incisional refractive surgical technique in which transverse incisions are made in the cornea to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.

Posterior chamber

Eyewear; Optometry

The space between the back of the iris and the front face of the vitreous; filled with aqueous fluid.

Intacs

Eyewear; Optometry

Trade name for Intrastromal Corneal Ring Segments. Small semicircular rings of plastic that are implanted in the mid-periphery of the cornea to correct myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) ...

A condition in which the surface of the cornea is not spherical, but is irregularly shaped like the back of a spoon. An astigmatic cornea causes light images to focus on two separate points in the ...

Posterior optical segment

Eyewear; Optometry

The part of the eye behind to the crystalline lens, including the vitreous, choroid, retina, and optic nerve.

Intralase

Eyewear; Optometry

Manufacturer of a femtosecond laser for use in creating a Lasik flap and other precise corneal incisions. Lasik with the Intralase laser created flap is called All-Laser Lasik or All-Laser Lasik. See ...

Atopy

Eyewear; Optometry

A type of inherited allergic response involving elevated immunoglobulin E. Sometimes called a reagin response, it means that you have hay fever, bronchial asthma, or skin problems like urticaria or ...