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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Health Maintenance organisation (HMO)

Eyewear; Optometry

A medical or vision insurance plan that requires beneficiaries to use only the facilities and physicians who have contracted with the plan to provide services to beneficiaries. Care provided to a ...

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare organisations (JCAHO)

Eyewear; Optometry

The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 18,000 health care organisations and programmes in the United States.

National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

Eyewear; Optometry

An independent, non-profit organisation that certifies credentials verification organisations and accredits managed care organizations.

National Eye Institute (NEI)

Eyewear; Optometry

A division of the US federal government's National Institutes of Health. Approximately three-fourths of US eye research funding originates at the National Eye Institute.

Deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty

An endothelial cell transplant technique wherein a disc of endothelial cell tissue is removed from a donor cornea and placed on the underside of the recipient cornea, replacing a disc of endothelial ...

Depth of focus

Eyewear; Optometry

The range of distance that objects are in focus. Depth of focus is directly affected by accommodation, the ability of the natural crystalline lens within the eye to change shape and thereby change ...