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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Covert

Health care; Optometry

Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown.

Somatosensory astereognosi

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 ...

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 ...

A sex-linked trait is carried on either the X or the Y chromosome. If it is carried on only the Y then only males can have it and all fathers will give it to their sons. If it is on the X chromosome ...

Serotonin

Health care; Optometry

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is implicated in the control of many functions of the body including sexuality, hunger, sleep cycles, and mood. It is the primary neurotransmitter which MDMA ...

Simultagnosia

Health care; Optometry

Patients recognise objects or details but only one at the time. They cannot make out the scene they belong to or make out a whole image out of the details. They literally cannot see the forest for ...