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  2. Ocular dominance - Wikipedia

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    Ocular dominance. Ocular dominance, sometimes called eye preference or eyedness, [ 1] is the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other. [ 2] It is somewhat analogous to the laterality of right- or left- handedness; however, the side of the dominant eye and the dominant hand do not always match. [ 3]

  3. Snellen chart - Wikipedia

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    Snellen chart. Purpose. Snellen chart is used to estimate visual acuity (last three rows are 20/15, 20/13 and 20/10) A Snellen chart is an eye chart that can be used to measure visual acuity. Snellen charts are named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen who developed the chart in 1862 as a measurement tool for the acuity formula ...

  4. Laterality - Wikipedia

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    Some people may, for instance, use their right hand for writing, and their left hand for playing racket sports and eating [2] (see also: cross-dominance). Also, it is not uncommon that people preferring to use the right hand prefer to use the left leg , e.g. when using a shovel, kicking a ball, or operating control pedals.

  5. Keratoconus - Wikipedia

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    Keratoconus. Keratoconus ( KC) is a disorder of the eye that results in progressive thinning of the cornea. [ 3] This may result in blurry vision, double vision, nearsightedness, irregular astigmatism, [ 4] and light sensitivity leading to poor quality-of-life. [ 3][ 5] Usually both eyes are affected. [ 3] In more severe cases a scarring or a ...

  6. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    Left hands make up over 90% of the artwork, demonstrating the prevalence of right-handedness. [ 1] A female student writes with her left hand. In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker ...

  7. Farsightedness - Wikipedia

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    If the brain never learns to see objects in detail, then there is a high chance of one eye becoming dominant. The result is that the brain will block the impulses of the non-dominant eye. In contrast, the child with myopia can see objects close to the eye in detail and does learn at an early age to see objects in detail. [medical citation needed]

  8. Duane syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Duane syndrome is a congenital rare type of strabismus most commonly characterized by the inability of the eye to move outward. The syndrome was first described by ophthalmologists Jakob Stilling (1887) and Siegmund Türk (1896), and subsequently named after Alexander Duane, who discussed the disorder in more detail in 1905. [ 2]

  9. Astigmatism - Wikipedia

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    Astigmatism, whether it is regular or irregular, is caused by some combination of external (corneal surface) and internal (posterior corneal surface, human lens, fluids, retina, and eye-brain interface) optical properties. In some people, the external optics may have the greater influence, and in other people, the internal optics may predominate.