Eyewear

Eyewear

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

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exophoria

Eyewear; Optometry

The position of the eyes in an over-diverged position compensated by the external eye muscles so that the eyes do not appear turned outward.

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 ...

orbit

Eyewear; Optometry

Also know as the "globe", the structural area of the facial skeleton into which the eye is set.

exotropia

Eyewear; Optometry

The position of the eyes in an over-diverged position so that non-fixating eye is turned outward.

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.