Home > Industry/Domain > Eyewear

Eyewear

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

5Categories 7261Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Eyewear

Eyewear > Optometry

lacrimal gland

Eyewear; Optometry

The small almond-shaped structure that produces tears; located just above the outer corner of the eye.

canthus

Eyewear; Optometry

Demarcation between the sclera and nasal corner of the eye.

radial keratotomy (RK)

Eyewear; Optometry

A surgical procedure that permanently alters the shape of the cornea by placing microscopically thin relaxing incisions in the peripheral cornea. The incisions cause the central ...

lagophthalmos

Eyewear; Optometry

The inability or difficulty closing one's eye. This can be caused by Bell's Palsy, trauma, neurosurgery, bacterial infection, stroke, and cosmetic surgery. Common symptoms are ...

cataract

Eyewear; Optometry

Also known as nuclear sclerosis. Cataracts are an opacity or clouding of the natural crystalline lens that may prevent a clear image from forming on the retina. Cataracts occur ...

wave length

Eyewear; Optometry

The distance between the top of one wave and the top of the next wave. The length of one complete wave of the argon fluoride excimer laser is 193 nm. This wavelength is in the far ...

dystrophy

Eyewear; Optometry

The term used to describe a wasting or weakening of biological material, such as corneal endothelial dystrophy (also known as Fuch's Dystrophy) being the wasting or weakening of ...

Sub-categories