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  2. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Family medical history FOH: Family ocular history F/U: Follow up appointment GH: General health G(M)P: General (medical) practitioner HA: Headaches HARC: Harmonious abnormal retinal correspondence HM: Hand motion vision – state distance Hx: History IOL: Intra-ocular lens IOP: Intra-ocular pressure ISNT: Inferior, Superior, Nasal, Temporal

  3. Posterior segment of eyeball - Wikipedia

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    The posterior segment or posterior cavity [1] is the back two-thirds of the eye that includes the anterior hyaloid membrane and all of the optical structures behind it: the vitreous humor, retina, choroid, and optic nerve. [2]

  4. Retinal vessel analysis - Wikipedia

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    Basically, the Retinal Vessel Analyzer measures the diameters of small arteries and vein in the posterior segment of the eye. In static retinal vessel analysis this is a snapshot, in dynamic vessel analysis (DVA) a 12.5 Hz optoelectric flickering light induces a stimulation of a specific segment of the retina to which the vessels react by a ...

  5. 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

  6. 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. [2] Eye examinations are primarily performed by an optometrist, ophthalmologist, or an orthoptist.

  7. Ophthalmoscopy - Wikipedia

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    Ophthalmoscopy, also called funduscopy, is a test that allows a health professional to see inside the fundus of the eye and other structures using an ophthalmoscope (or funduscope). It is done as part of an eye examination and may be done as part of a routine physical examination .

  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. List of instruments used in ophthalmology - Wikipedia

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    to test colour vision ••Ishihara's chart: to determine the type of colour blindness Stenopaeic slit: detection of axis of the cylindrical (astigmatism) power of the eye; glaucoma testing Implants - •Intraocular lens: prosthetic lenses implanted after lens (anatomy) removal •Artificial eyes: as non-functional cosmetic implants into the ...