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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Barraquer cyro-lathe

Eyewear; Optometry

An instrument used in performing refractive surgery to correct extreme myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) or hyperopia (farsighted, longsighted vision).

Intraoperative

Eyewear; Optometry

Patient care procedures performed during the operation that are ancillary to the actual surgery. May include monitoring, fluid therapy, medication, transfusion, anesthesia, radiography, and/or ...

Basement membrane

Eyewear; Optometry

A membrane of tissue beneath the epithelium that helps adhere the epithelium to the Bowman's layer or stromal tissue.

Presbyopia

Eyewear; Optometry

Part of the normal process of aging. As a person becomes older, we begin to lose the flexibility of the natural crystalline lens of the eye and weakness of the ciliary muscle. Presbyopia actually ...

Intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS)

Eyewear; Optometry

Also know Intacs, small semicircular rings of plastic that are implanted in the mid-periphery of the cornea to correct myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) and/or keratoconus.

Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA)

Eyewear; Optometry

This is a measure of best acuity while wearing corrective lenses like glasses or contact lenses.

Presbyopic lens exchange (PRELEX)

Eyewear; Optometry

The term Presbyopic Lens Exchange (PRELEX) was created to describe a Refractive Lens Exchange with an intraocular lens designed to accommodate presbyopia.