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drusen

Eyewear; Optometry

Tiny yellow or white deposits in the retina or optic nerve head.

vitreous humor

Eyewear; Optometry

The transparent, colorless mass of gel that lies behind lens and in front of retina. W

The term dry eye is used to describe a variety of ocular disorders with diverse aetiopathogenesis but similar symptoms: discomfort, a feeling of dryness, burning or stinging, grittiness, foreign body ...

automated perimeter

Eyewear; Optometry

A computer-driven device used to plot defects in the visual field. Usually the patient's head is placed into this large hemisphere shell. Various points of lights, sometimes of different sizes, ...

barraquer cyro-lathe

Eyewear; Optometry

An instrument used in performing refractive surgery to correct extreme myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted vision) or hyperopia (farsighted, longsighted vision).

preoperative

Eyewear; Optometry

Pertaining to the period of time before surgery.

intraoperative

Eyewear; Optometry

Patient care procedures performed during the operation that are ancillary to the actual surgery. May include monitoring, fluid therapy, medication, transfusion, anesthesia, radiography, and/or ...