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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Slit lamp microscope

Eyewear; Optometry

Instrument consisting of a microscope and a swivelling illumination system providing a slit image.

Single-vision lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens designed to provide a single dioptric power.

Side

Eyewear; Optometry

That part of the trial frame which uses the subject's ears to retain the frame against the face.

Refracting edge

Eyewear; Optometry

Line in which the two nonparallel plane surfaces of a prism meet.

Resolution

Eyewear; Optometry

Smallest separation between two details, expressed as a linear or angular measurement, at which a pair of. Points may be recognised as being separate under a given set of conditions.