Optometry

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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cornea

Health care; Optometry

The clear part of the eye covering the iris and pupil; it lets light into the eye, permitting sight.

When applied to numbers, a value that falls exactly in the middle of a specified range. Half of the numbers are above the median, and half of the numbers are below the median. As an example, "five" ...

emmetropia

Health care; Optometry

The condition of an eye with normal vision, meaning that light rays correctly are focused at the inner back of the eye (retina) where images are processed.

angiogenesis

Health care; Optometry

The formation of new blood vessels in the body. Also see neovascularization.

optic

Health care; Optometry

The rounded, central portion of an intraocular lens (IOL) used in cataract surgery. Optic also more generally refers to eyes or vision.

myasthenia gravis

Health care; Optometry

Weakness of the voluntary muscles, believed to be autoimmune in nature. Symptoms include double vision and eyelid ptosis; patients sometimes have non-eye symptoms as well, such as difficulty ...