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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Low vision telescope

Optometry; Optometry

Telescopic optical system, Galilean or Keplerian that forms a magnified retinal image of an object.

Illuminating system

Eyewear; Optometry

The light source and associated lenses, mirrors and/or prism which serve to provide and project light into or onto the patient's eye.

Image jump

Eyewear; Optometry

Abrupt displacement of the image when vision passes from one field to another, given by the difference in prismatic effects at the dividing line.

Indirect ophthalmoscope

Eyewear; Optometry

An optical instrument used with a condensing lens (hand-held or integral) to examine the eye, particularly the media and the fundus, by producing a real intermediate image which is viewed by the ...