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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Alcon

Eyewear; Optometry

Medical device manufacturer. Click here to go to website.

Overcorrection

Eyewear; Optometry

A known complication of refractive surgery where the expected amount of correction is more than desired. Overcorrection often occurs where healing regresses less vigorously than predicted. See ...

Extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE)

Eyewear; Optometry

A surgical procedure that removes the cataractous lens of the eye but leaves the posterior lens capsule intact.

limbus

Health care; Optometry

Boundary area connecting the cornea and sclera; the three form the eye's outermost layer.

retinitis pigmentosa

Health care; Optometry

Usually inherited condition characterized by progressive degeneration of the retina, resulting in night blindness and decreased peripheral vision. For more information, please see our retinitis ...

Optometry

Optometry; Optometry

Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans.

An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an erroneous perception of reality in that the visually perceived images differ from the real world object. The information observed by the eye ...