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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Ophthalmoscope

Optometry; Optometry

An optical instrument used to examine the external and internal parts of the eye, particularly the media and the fundus.

Ophthalmoscope graticules

Eyewear; Optometry

Patterns or targets or graticules which can be optionally positioned in the illuminating light path within the instrument and which will be imaged on the retina for diagnostic, measurement or ...

Optical axis

Eyewear; Optometry

Straight line, perpendicular to both optical surfaces of a spectacle lens, along which light can pass undeviated.

Ophthalmometer

Eyewear; Optometry

An instrument designed to measure and indicate the radii of curvature and principal meridians of the human cornea's, central area and of contact lenses.