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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Axons are the parts of the neurons which transmit an electrical signal from one part of the body to another. This electrical signal is propagated by a wave of voltage gated channels that open letting ...

Dementia

Health care; Optometry

Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional ...

Cone photoreceptors

Health care; Optometry

Cones are receptor cells of the retina; meximally sensitive to one of three different wavelengths of light and hence encodes colour vision.

Caudate nucleus

Health care; Optometry

A nucleus that supplies input to the basal ganglia, which scientists believe control movement. The caudate nucleus is thought to control voluntary movement.