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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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ischemia

Eyewear; Optometry

A decrease in the blood supply caused by constriction or obstruction of the blood vessels. J

prism

Eyewear; Optometry

A prism is a lens that will bends light towards its base. Prisms are used to measure the angle of deviation in strabismus to correcting binocular polyopia when the eyes become ...

keloid

Eyewear; Optometry

An abnormal scaring of damaged tissue. See Keloid Details.

binocular vision

Eyewear; Optometry

The blending of the separate images seen by each of two eyes into a single image. Normal binocular vision yields a stereoscopic image and parallax-induced depth perception.

keratectomy

Eyewear; Optometry

Surgical excision (removal) of any portion of the cornea.

pseudophakic

Eyewear; Optometry

When the natural crystalline lens of the eye has been replaced with an artificial lens during cataract surgery or Refractive Lens Exchange.

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