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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Temporal lobe atrophy

Health care; Optometry

A wasting away or decreasing in size of the temporal lobe of the brain.

Any one of the complex proteins produced by living cells which acts as a catalyst (increases the likelihood that a reaction will occur)for specific biochemical reactions. MAO is an example of this. ...

Dopamine

Health care; Optometry

The neurotransmitter which is produced by the nucleus accumbens and acts as a pleasure producing substance when released into the many regions of the brain which it affects. If an individual uses ...

Dendrite

Health care; Optometry

The part of a nerve cell which will receive information from the terminal buttons of an axon relay it towards the body of the cell. Once the information reaches the body it can then be sent through ...