Meaning | The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases. |
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Category of | ametropia | (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia |
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astigmatism, astigmia | (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea |
emmetropia | (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina |
hyperopic, hypermetropic | Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects |
myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness | (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability |
slit lamp | (ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve |
Broader | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
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Spanish | oftalmología |
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Catalan | oftalmologia |
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Adjectives | ophthalmic | of or relating to ophthalmology |
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Nouns | ophthalmologist | a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye |
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