Eyewear

Eyewear

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

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hyperopia

Eyewear; Optometry

Also known as farsightedness or longsightedness. Hyperopia occurs when the eyeball is too short from front to back, or the eye's focusing mechanism is too weak, causing light rays ...

polynomial

Eyewear; Optometry

See Zernike Polynomial

hypobaric

Eyewear; Optometry

Environment with a decrease of atmospheric pressure, such as at high altitude.

aqueous humor

Eyewear; Optometry

Clear watery fluid that flows between and nourishes the lens and the cornea. It is secreted by the ciliary processes.

polyopia

Eyewear; Optometry

Two or more images. Monocular polyopia would be when a person sees multiple images in one eye. Monocular polyopia is commonly described as ghosting or providing a ghost image. ...

argon laser

Eyewear; Optometry

Laser light produced from argon gas. The main wavelengths are 488.0 nm blue and 514.5-nm pea green light, but nine separate wavelengths in the blue-green visible light spectrum ...