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custom contoured ablation pattern (C-CAP)

Eyewear; Optometry

The customization of laser vision correction treatments for decentered ablations and similar corneal aberrations. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Custom Contoured Ablation ...

readers

Eyewear; Optometry

See Reading Glasses.

laser

Eyewear; Optometry

An acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Laser light is different from ordinary light in that it is composed of one color (wavelength) traveling in one direction ...

central ablation zone

Eyewear; Optometry

See Optical Ablation Zone.

reading glasses

Eyewear; Optometry

Spectacles that induce a small amount of myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision), also called plus lenses. Reading glasses, often called readers, are used temporarily by individuals who are ...

laser assisted epithelium keratomileusis

Eyewear; Optometry

Laser Assisted Sub-Epithelium Keratomileusis (LASEK) is the detachment of the epithelium with the use of an alcohol solution that softens the epithelium and allows it to be rolled back into a flap. ...

central island

Eyewear; Optometry

A complication of excimer laser assisted refractive surgery where the laser fails to remove a portion of cornea. If one views the concave area of the ablation like a lake, one can imagine an island ...