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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Subliminal messages

Health care; Optometry

Subliminal Messages are messages that your brain picks up from stimuli but your consciousness does not. They can affect behaviour without people being aware of them.

Temporal lobectomy

Health care; Optometry

Removal of the temporal lobe (s) of the brain.

Fresnel prism

Health care; Optometry

A fresnel prism is a type of compact lens originally developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel for lighthouses. The design allows lenses to have large aperture and short focal length ...

Lens

Health care; Optometry

1. The nearly spherical body in the eye, located behind the cornea, that focuses light rays onto the retina. 2. A device used to focus light into the eye in order to magnify or minify images, or ...

Asteroid hyalosis

Health care; Optometry

A benign condition that creates suspended particles within the eye's interior, observable by an eye doctor during an exam. Floaters are not usually associated. These yellowish particles made of ...

Cavernous sinus problem

Health care; Optometry

The cavernous sinus is located at the base of the cranium and contains the carotid artery and cranial nerves. Problems in the cavernous sinus include tumors, aneurysms and clots. Typical symptoms ...

Placebo

Health care; Optometry

A "false" but harmless treatment that has no proven medical value. Placebos usually are incorporated into clinical trials to measure how patients respond to an authentic therapy that is being ...