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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Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA)

Eyewear; Optometry

The best vision measurement taken without the use of glasses or contact lenses.

The ability of the vision system to perceive the relative positions of objects in the visual field. This ability to determine the distance of an object is provided by the two eyes receiving slightly ...

Undercorrection

Eyewear; Optometry

A complication of refractive surgery where the expected amount of correction is less than desired. Undercorrection often occurs where healing regresses more vigorously than predicted.

Descemet's layer

Eyewear; Optometry

Layer of cells in the cornea above the corneal endothelium.

Uvea, uveal tract

Eyewear; Optometry

The middle coat of the eyeball, consisting of the choroid in the back of the eye and the ciliary body and iris in the front of the eye. V

Diabetes mellitus

Eyewear; Optometry

A chronic metabolic disorder characterised by a lack of insulin secretion and/or increased cellular resistance to insulin, resulting in elevated blood levels of simple sugars (glucose) and including ...

Variable spot

Eyewear; Optometry

This is a method of applying excimer laser energy. Rather than applying all excimer energy in a broadbeam across the entire ablation area, or with a very small flying spot of excimer energy applied ...