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allergan


Ophthalmic equipment and drug company. Click here to go to website.
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antimetropia


A condition in which one eye is myopic and the fellow eye is hyperopic.
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conjunctiva


The thin transparent mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and covers the white surface of the eye.
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diopter


A unit of measure of the refractive power if a lens. A one-diopter lens will focus parallel light rays one meter from the lens and a two-diopter lens will focus one-half of a meter from the lens. A plus 1.0 diopter lens is convex and will converge the light rays so they focus as a visible image 1 meter past the lens. A minus 1.0 diopter lens is con [..]
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pk


See Penetrating Keratoplasty.
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rosacea


See Ocular Rosacea.
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summit


Ophthalmic equipment company.
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topcon


Ophthalmic equipment company.
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20/20 fraction commonly used to indicate normal vision. a bottom number larger than twenty indicates diminished vision. for example


A Scan Ultrasonic procedure to measure specific areas within the eye.
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aao


See American Academy of Ophthalmology or the American Academy of Optometry.
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