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Eye surgery

side vision

Eyewear; Optometry

See peripheral vision.

contact lens, therapeutic

Eyewear; Optometry

Contact lenses designed to aid in protecting and helping a sick eye to heal. These unique lenses are frequently combined with precise medication delivery schedules to heal the eye.

slit lamp

Eyewear; Optometry

A microscope using various magnifications combined with a strong light that can be focused into a slit for examining the eye.

monocular

Eyewear; Optometry

Involving one eye. As example, monocular polyopia is when a person sees multiple images in one eye.

contact lens, toric

Eyewear; Optometry

Contact lenses designed to correct astigmatic refractive errors. Toric lenses are weighted to maintain a specific axis across the cornea.

snellen visual acuity test

Eyewear; Optometry

The white chart with the big black E at the top and lines of letters that become increasingly smaller. The Snellen Test is one of many tests used to determine visual acuity. The term 20/20 means that ...

monovision

Eyewear; Optometry

A technique to limit the effects of presbyopia by correcting one eye for near vision and the other for far vision. Detailed Lasik and NearVision CK Monovision

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