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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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spherocylindrical lens
Eyewear; Optometry
Lens with one spherical surface and one cylindrical surface.
surface power
Eyewear; Optometry
Ability of a surface (or part of a surface) to change the vergence of a bundle of rays incident in air at the surface.
synoptophore
Eyewear; Optometry
An instrument designed to present interchangeable targets to each eye and with the ability to move targets independently in order to present them at different versional and vergence positions.
test stimulus
Eyewear; Optometry
Stimulus used to determine differential light sensitivity in each tested location of the visual field.
slit lamp microscope
Eyewear; Optometry
Instrument consisting of a microscope and a swivelling illumination system providing a slit image.
