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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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dioptric power

Eyewear; Optometry

General term comprising the focal power and the prismatic power of a spectacle lens.

direct ophthalmoscope

Eyewear; Optometry

An ophthalmoscope which provides an illuminating system, a viewing system and corrective lenses which allow the observer to view the patient's eye directly, that is without the ...

dispersion

Eyewear; Optometry

Phenomenon of change in the velocity of propagation of monochromatic radiation in a medium as a function of the frequency of the radiation.

distance cap

Eyewear; Optometry

Negative lens placed in front of a near vision telescope/ telemicroscope objective to adapt the device for viewing a distant object.

corneal refraction

Eyewear; Optometry

Value of corneal refractive power.

corrective lens

Eyewear; Optometry

Spectacle lens with dioptric power.

cylinder axis

Eyewear; Optometry

Direction of that principal meridian of a spectacle lens whose vertex power is chosen for reference.

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