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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double vision

Health care; Optometry

Also called diplopia. When two images of the same object are perceived by one or both eyes. Read our article on double vision and also review eye symptoms for a list of conditions that can cause ...

diplopia

Health care; Optometry

Also called double vision. When two images of the same object are perceived by one or both eyes. Read our article on double vision and also review eye symptoms for a list of conditions that can ...

keratoconjunctivitis sicca

Health care; Optometry

Also called dry eye syndrome. Chronic lack of sufficient lubrication and moisture in the eye.

hyperopia

Health care; Optometry

Also called farsightedness. Condition in which the length of the eye is too short, causing light rays to focus behind the retina rather than on it, resulting in blurred near vision. Additional ...

farsightedness

Health care; Optometry

Also called hyperopia. To farsighted people, near objects are blurry, but far objects are in focus.

Laser Thermal Keratoplasty (LTK)

Health care; Optometry

Also called Laser Thermokeratoplasty. Surgery to correct mild farsightedness in people over 40; the doctor uses a holmium laser to heat the cornea and shrink its collagen.

amblyopia

Health care; Optometry

Also called lazy eye. Undeveloped central vision in one eye that leads to the use of the other eye as the dominant eye. Strabismus is the leading cause, followed by anisometropia. There are no ...