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Optometry
A health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. The practice of eye and vision care.
Industry: Eyewear; Health care
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Optometry
effective power
Eyewear; Optometry
Dioptric power of the lens required at an altered vertex distance.
edging machine
Eyewear; Optometry
Machinery profiling (edging) spectacle lenses designed for insertion into spectacle frames.
distance portion curve
Eyewear; Optometry
Curvature of the distance portion of the segment side or progressive side, expressed as a surface power.
distance dependent ophthalmometer
Eyewear; Optometry
Ophthalmometer in which the result of measurement is influenced by the distance between the instrument and the surface to be measured.
distance portion
Eyewear; Optometry
That portion of a multifocal or progressive power-lens having the dioptric power for distance vision.
