Eyewear

Eyewear

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

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monochromatic

Health care; Optometry

Refers to one wavelength of light, as opposed to the many wavelengths of light found in varying colors.

central island

Health care; Optometry

Refractive surgery complication in which the laser leaves an "island" of corneal tissue in the concave ablation zone. Symptoms include double vision and distortion. Read more ...

ablation

Health care; Optometry

Removal. In vision, ablation refers to the surgical removal of eye tissue to correct a refractive error such as myopia. For example, in laser procedures such as LASIK and PRK, ...

Conductive Keratoplasty (CK)

Health care; Optometry

Rocedure in which a surgeon uses radio waves to heat collagen in the cornea's periphery to shrink it and reduce hyperopia (farsightedness). CK is also used to treat presbyopia. ...