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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.
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atoric lens
Eyewear; Optometry
Lens with astigmatic power in which at least one principal meridian is not spherical.
progressive power lens
Eyewear; Optometry
Lens with a surface which is not rotationally symmetrical, with continuous change of focal power over a part or the whole of the lens.
progression zone
Eyewear; Optometry
Transition zone between the distance and near zones of a progressive lens.
prismatic test lens
Eyewear; Optometry
Lenses used for the calibration of the prismatic deviation measurements by focimeters, in which the prismatic power of each lens is expressed in centimetres deviation per metre distance (cm/m).
viewing lenses
Eyewear; Optometry
Lenses which are positioned between the observer's eye(s) and the eye to be examined in order to achieve optimum focus.
visual field
Eyewear; Optometry
Sum of all directions from which the eye may perceive visual stimulation at a defined moment in time and the performance of the perception of this stimulation. Also known as field of view.
