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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Lesion

Health care; Optometry

A wound or injury, generally disrupting function.

Asperger's syndrome

Health care; Optometry

A syndrome similar to Autistic Psychopathy characterised by severe and sustained impairment in social interaction, development of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and ...

Astereognosia or somatosensory agnosia

Health care; Optometry

An agnosia connected to tactile sense - that is, touch. Patient finds it difficult to recognise objects by touch based on its texture, size and weight. However, they may be able to describe it ...

Associative agnosia is less severe form of visual agnosia because a limited understanding of the relevance of a visual object is retained. People with associate visual agnosia can copy drawings but ...

Appreceptive agnosia

Health care; Optometry

Apperceptive agnosia is more severe type of visual agnosia and represents an inability to categorise or manipulate an object that that can only be seen. A person with apperceptive agnosia may be ...