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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

binocular field of view

Eyewear; Optometry

Visual field of an individual perceived with both eyes open.

base setting

Eyewear; Optometry

Direction of the line from apex to base in a principal section of a prism.

bifocal lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Multifocal lens having two portions, usually for distance and near vision.

back vertex power

Eyewear; Optometry

Reciprocal of the paraxial back vertex focal length.

balancing lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Lens fitted to a spectacle frame or mount to balance the weight and/or the appearance of the other lens.

back surface

Eyewear; Optometry

That surface of the spectacle lens intended to be fitted nearer to the eye.

back vertex focal length

Eyewear; Optometry

Distance in an optical system from the back surface to the focal point measured along the optical axis (axis of symmetry).

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