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  2. Snellen chart - Wikipedia

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    A person taking the test covers one eye from 6 metres or 20 feet away, and reads aloud the letters of each row, beginning at the top. The smallest row that can be read accurately indicates the visual acuity in that specific eye. The symbols on an acuity chart are formally known as "optotypes". Variation of Snellen chart with another letter ...

  3. Eye chart - Wikipedia

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    An eye chart is a chart used to measure visual acuity comprising lines of optotypes in ranges of sizes. Optotypes are the letters or symbols shown on an eye chart. [ 1 ] Eye charts are often used by health care professionals, such as optometrists , physicians and nurses , to screen persons for vision impairment .

  4. Jaeger chart - Wikipedia

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    The Jaeger chart is an eye chart used in testing near visual acuity. It is a card on which paragraphs of text are printed, with the text sizes increasing from 0.37 mm to 2.5 mm. [ 1 ] This card is to be held by a patient at a fixed distance from the eye dependent on the J size being read.

  5. Sloan letters - Wikipedia

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    Sloan letters, designed by Louise Sloan in 1959, are a set of optotypes used to test visual acuity generally used in Snellen charts and logMAR charts. This set of optotypes consists of ten specially formed "letters", C, D, H, K, N, O, R, S, V and Z. [ 1 ] These letters, unlike the ones used in older Snellen charts, are designed to give acuity ...

  6. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    Ten Horn's sign: Carel Hendrik Leo Herman ten Horn: surgery: appendicitis: pain in the right iliac fossa after traction of spermatic cord Terry's nails: R. Terry: internal medicine: various including hepatic failure: white 'ground glass' nails;absence of lunula Terry Thomas sign: Terry-Thomas: Orthopaedics: Scapho-lunate dissociation

  7. Eye examination - Wikipedia

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    An eye examination, commonly known as an eye test, [1] is a series of tests performed to assess vision and ability to focus on and discern objects. [2] It also includes other tests and examinations of the eyes. [3] Eye examinations are primarily performed by an optometrist, ophthalmologist, or an orthoptist.

  8. Posterior horn - Wikipedia

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    Posterior horn of lateral ventricle in the brain, which passes forward, laterally and slightly downward, from the corpus callosum into the occipital lobe Posterior horn of spinal cord , the dorsal (towards the back) grey matter section of the spinal cord that receives several types of sensory information from the body including light touch ...

  9. Posterior segment of eyeball - Wikipedia

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    Some ophthalmologists specialize in the treatment and management of posterior segment disorders and diseases. [ 3 ] In some animals, the retina contains a reflective layer (the tapetum lucidum ) which increases the amount of light each photosensitive cell perceives, reflecting the light out of the eye, allowing the animal to see better under ...