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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Ophthalmic lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens intended to be used for purposes of measurement, correction and/or protection of the eye, or for changing its appearance.

Near portion

Eyewear; Optometry

That portion of a multifocal or progressive-power lens having the dioptric power for near vision.

Near visual point

Eyewear; Optometry

Assumed position of the visual point on a lens which is used for near vision under given conditions.

Multifocal lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens designed to provide two or more visibly divided portions of different focal powers.

Monocular pupillary distance

Eyewear; Optometry

Distance between the centre of the pupil and the midline of the bridge of the nose or the spectacle frame when the eye is in the primary position.

Monocular field

Eyewear; Optometry

Visual field of an individual perceived with a single eye.

Monocular indirect ophthalmoscope

Eyewear; Optometry

A monocular ophthalmoscope which provides an illumination system and which is used with a condensing lens (hand-held or integral) in order to direct appropriately focused light into the patient's ...