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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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Optometry
image jump
Eyewear; Optometry
Abrupt displacement of the image when vision passes from one field to another, given by the difference in prismatic effects at the dividing line.
indirect ophthalmoscope
Eyewear; Optometry
An optical instrument used with a condensing lens (hand-held or integral) to examine the eye, particularly the media and the fundus, by producing a real intermediate image which is viewed by the ...
lenticular lens
Eyewear; Optometry
Lens with a central portion finished to prescription, surrounded by a supporting margin.
lens support
Eyewear; Optometry
The aperture on the instrument against which the lens or the contact lens is placed for measurement.
lens holder
Eyewear; Optometry
Unit designed to hold a number of trial case lenses in front of one eye.
