Eye surgery

Eye surgery

Industry: Eyewear

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customvue

Eyewear; Optometry

The trade name for the use of wavefront guided custom ablation with the VISX S4 excimer laser. Custom Wavefront Lasik Detailed Information.

toric

Eyewear; Optometry

A contact lens that is designed to correct sphere and astigmatism. A toric lens is weighted on the bottom so it will maintain the same axis position of the astigmatic correction.

cyclopegic refraction

Eyewear; Optometry

An examination of the eye to determine refractive error while the natural crystalline lens of the eye is paralyzed and unable to accommodate.

trabecular meshwork

Eyewear; Optometry

The spongy, mesh-like tissue near the front of the eye that allows the aqueous fluid to flow to Schlemm's canal then out of the eye through ocular veins.

cyclorotation

Eyewear; Optometry

See Cyclotorsion.

transition zone

Eyewear; Optometry

The area of laser ablation that changes for the full correction of the central ablation zone optical ablation zone to the original surface depth of the cornea.

cyclotorsion

Eyewear; Optometry

When eyes rotate clockwise or counterclockwise. This often occurs when a person changes from vertical (standing or sitting up) to horizontal (lying down) position.