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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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automated lamellar keratoplasty (ALK)
Eyewear; Optometry
An incisional refractive surgery technique for low to moderate myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision). In the procedure, the refractive surgeon places an instrument called an ...
posterior vitreous detachment
Eyewear; Optometry
The separation of the vitreous body from the retinal surface due to shrinkage from degenerative or inflammatory conditions or trauma. Often an age-related condition.
against-the-rule astigmatism
Eyewear; Optometry
With the rule astigmatism has an axis of about 180 degrees (when Rx is written in minus cylinder form). "Against the rule" astigmatism has the axis at about 90 degrees. Both forms ...
age related macular degeneration (ARMD)
Eyewear; Optometry
Destruction and loss of the photoreceptors in the macula region of the retina resulting in decreased central vision and, in advanced cases, blindness.
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