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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
Eyewear; Optometry
An optical instrument used to examine the external and internal parts of the eye, particularly the media and the fundus.
Reuptake
Health care; Optometry
The process by which terminal buttons of axons will take certain neurotransmitters out of the synapse in order to clean up or to reduce their concentration. Reuptake is inhibited with drugs such as ...
Receptive amusia
Health care; Optometry
Receptive amusia is agnosia for music. Cortical deafness refers to people who do not respond to any auditory info but their hearing is intact.
Putamen
Health care; Optometry
A region that supplies input to the basal ganglia, which scientists believe control movement. The putamen is thought to control voluntary movement.
Posterior cerebral artery stroke
Health care; Optometry
A stroke in a specific blood vessel in the back of the head.
Rod photoreceptors
Health care; Optometry
Rods are receptor cells of the retina; sensitive to light of low intensity.
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