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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Diabetic retinopathy damages the tiny blood vessels that supply the retina. In the early stages of this disease-called non-proliferative or "background" retinopathy, the retinal vessels weaken and ...

Vector vision

Eyewear; Optometry

Ophthalmic equipment company.

Diffuse lamellar keratitis (DLK)

Eyewear; Optometry

Also called sands of sahara due to the appearance of dunes of sand in the cornea with advanced stages. DLK is an inflammation under the Lasik flap of the cornea which is believed to be caused by a ...

Vision therapy

Eyewear; Optometry

A treatment process for the improvement of visual perception and/or coordination of the two eyes for efficient and comfortable binocular vision (orthopedics, vision training, and eye exercises).

Dilation

Eyewear; Optometry

A process by which the pupil is enlarged. Allows more light to the interior of the eye.

Visual acuity

Eyewear; Optometry

A measure of spatial resolution. The measure of the ability to visually discriminate.

Diopter

Eyewear; Optometry

A unit of measure of the refractive power if a lens. A one-diopter lens will focus parallel light rays one metre from the lens and a two-diopter lens will focus one-half of a metre from the lens. A ...