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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.

Contributors in Optometry

Optometry

cylindrical lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens with at least one cylindrical surface.

cylindrical power

Eyewear; Optometry

Plus or minus the astigmatic difference, depending on the principal meridian chosen for reference.

cylindrical surface

Eyewear; Optometry

Part of the inside or outside surface of a cylinder.

cylindrical test lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lenses with cylindrical faces which are used to calibrate the axis marker and axis indicator with respect to the adjustment orientation of the rail.

decentration

Eyewear; Optometry

Displacement of the centration point from the boxed centre of the shape of the edged lens.

depth perception

Eyewear; Optometry

Perception of the distance at which objects points are located from the wearer.

design reference point

Eyewear; Optometry

That point or those points, stipulated by the manufacturer, on the finished surface of a lens blank or on the front surface of the finished lens, at which the design specifications apply.

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