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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Direct ophthalmoscope

Eyewear; Optometry

An ophthalmoscope which provides an illuminating system, a viewing system and corrective lenses which allow the observer to view the patient's eye directly, that is without the formation of an ...

Dispersion

Eyewear; Optometry

Phenomenon of change in the velocity of propagation of monochromatic radiation in a medium as a function of the frequency of the radiation.

Distance cap

Eyewear; Optometry

Negative lens placed in front of a near vision telescope/ telemicroscope objective to adapt the device for viewing a distant object.

Viewing lenses

Eyewear; Optometry

Lenses which are positioned between the observer's eye(s) and the eye to be examined in order to achieve optimum focus.

Visual field

Eyewear; Optometry

Sum of all directions from which the eye may perceive visual stimulation at a defined moment in time and the performance of the perception of this stimulation. Also known as field of view.