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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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Photochromatic material
Eyewear; Optometry
Material which reversibly changes its luminous transmittance characteristics depending upon the intensity and wavelength of the radiation falling upon it.
Permanent engraving
Eyewear; Optometry
Permanent engraving for the reconstruction of all reference points and measuring points of progressive lenses.
Pantoscopic angle
Eyewear; Optometry
1. Angle in the vertical plane between the optical axis of a spectacle lens and the visual axis of the eye in the primary position, usually taken to be the horizontal. 2. Angle between the spectacle ...
Optical material
Eyewear; Optometry
Transparent material capable of being manufactured into optical components.
Optical radiation hazard
Eyewear; Optometry
Possibility of damage to the retina by optical radiation.
Optical centre
Eyewear; Optometry
For practical purposes, the intersection of the optical axis with the front surface a lens.
