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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Iris

Eyewear; Optometry

Pigmented tissue that lie behind the cornea that gives colour to the eye (e.g., blue eyes) and controls the amount of light entering the eye by varying the size of the black pupillary opening.

Corrective lenses that have two powers of correction. Typically the majority of the lens is corrected for distance vision while a small are is corrected for near vision. Bifocals and trifocals are ...

Orbit

Eyewear; Optometry

Also know as the "globe", the structural area of the facial skeleton into which the eye is set.

Exotropia

Eyewear; Optometry

The position of the eyes in an over-diverged position so that non-fixating eye is turned outward.

Age related macular degeneration (ARMD)

Eyewear; Optometry

Destruction and loss of the photoreceptors in the macula region of the retina resulting in decreased central vision and, in advanced cases, blindness.