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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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contact lens, toric
Eyewear; Optometry
Contact lenses designed to correct astigmatic refractive errors. Toric lenses are weighted to maintain a specific axis across the cornea.
snellen visual acuity test
Eyewear; Optometry
The white chart with the big black E at the top and lines of letters that become increasingly smaller. The Snellen Test is one of many tests used to determine visual acuity. The ...
monovision
Eyewear; Optometry
A technique to limit the effects of presbyopia by correcting one eye for near vision and the other for far vision. Detailed Lasik and NearVision CK Monovision
contrast sensitivity
Eyewear; Optometry
The ability to perceive differences between an object and its background.
munnerlyn formula
Eyewear; Optometry
Named for engineer Charles R. Munnerlyn, Ph.D, who pioneered the technology for vision correction based on the excimer laser. This is the basic formula to calculate the amount of ...
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