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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.
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Optometry
Magnification of photography
Eyewear; Optometry
Ratio of the size of the image on the photosensitive target to that of the fundus at the centre of the photographic field, assuming that the eye is emmetropic and that it has a focal length of 17 mm ...
Low vision telescope
Eyewear; Optometry
Telescopic optical system, Galilean or Keplerian that forms a magnified retinal image of an object.
Lenticular portion
Eyewear; Optometry
That portion of a lenticular lens which has the prescribed power.
Infrared radiation
Optometry; Optometry
Optical radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible radiation.
Cylinder axis
Eyewear; Optometry
Direction of that principal meridian of a spectacle lens whose vertex power is chosen for reference.
