Eyewear

Eyewear

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

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aqueous humor

Eyewear; Optometry

Clear watery fluid that flows between and nourishes the lens and the cornea. It is secreted by the ciliary processes.

polyopia

Eyewear; Optometry

Two or more images. Monocular polyopia would be when a person sees multiple images in one eye. Monocular polyopia is commonly described as ghosting or providing a ghost image. ...

hypoxia

Eyewear; Optometry

A deficiency of oxygen supply to a tissue

argon laser

Eyewear; Optometry

Laser light produced from argon gas. The main wavelengths are 488.0 nm blue and 514.5-nm pea green light, but nine separate wavelengths in the blue-green visible light spectrum ...

posterior

Eyewear; Optometry

Back surface or behind.

implantable collamer lens (ICL)

Eyewear; Optometry

Descriptive trade name for the STAAR Myopic Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) indicated for the correction of high refractive error and is intended for placement behind the ...