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Eyewear

Eyeglasses, goggles or other objects worn over the eyes, usually to aid vision or for protective purposes.

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photovaporization

Eyewear; Optometry

The process of tissue destruction as occurs with infra red light radiation.

halos

Eyewear; Optometry

A known complication of refractive surgery that causes images from light sources to blur with circles radiating out from the center. Halos also occur naturally without refractive ...

phthisis bulbi

Eyewear; Optometry

Shrinking of eyeball following injury, infection, or disease.

haptics

Eyewear; Optometry

Extensions of plastic from the lens portion of an intraocular lens (IOL) that position and center the IOL within the eye.

haze

Eyewear; Optometry

An opacification or cloudiness of the normally clear cornea. Any build up of inflammatory infiltrates (white blood cells), extra moisture, scar tissue, or foreign substances (like ...

antimetropia

Eyewear; Optometry

A condition in which one eye is myopic and the fellow eye is hyperopic.

pinguecula

Eyewear; Optometry

A yellowish spot seen on the white of the eye at the junction of the clear cornea and white sclera of the eye. These lesions are usually caused by ultraviolet radiation. The white ...

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