Eyewear

Eyewear

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

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Eyewear; Optometry

An instrument used in performing refractive surgery to correct extreme myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) or hyperopia (farsighted, longsighted vision).

preoperative

Eyewear; Optometry

Pertaining to the period of time before surgery.

intraoperative

Eyewear; Optometry

Patient care procedures performed during the operation that are ancillary to the actual surgery. May include monitoring, fluid therapy, medication, transfusion, anesthesia, ...

basement membrane

Eyewear; Optometry

A membrane of tissue beneath the epithelium that helps adhere the epithelium to the Bowman's layer or stromal tissue.

presbyopia

Eyewear; Optometry

Part of the normal process of aging. As a person becomes older, we begin to lose the flexibility of the natural crystalline lens of the eye and weakness of the ciliary muscle. ...

intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS)

Eyewear; Optometry

Also know Intacs, small semicircular rings of plastic that are implanted in the mid-periphery of the cornea to correct myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) and/or ...