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2. Glasses - Wikipedia

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   Recumbent or prism glasses are glasses that use a prism with a 90° refraction to allow the wearer to read or view a screen while lying on their back. Developed by Liverpudlian ophthalmologist Andrew McKie Reid in the 1930s to assist people bedbound by chronic illness or spinal injury, recumbent glasses have more recently been marketed not ...

3. Horn-rimmed glasses - Wikipedia

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   A pair of horn-rimmed glasses. Horn-rimmed glasses are a type of eyeglasses. Originally made out of either horn or tortoise shell, for most of their history they have actually been constructed out of thick plastics designed to imitate those materials. They are characterized by their bold appearance on the wearer's face, in contrast to metal ...

4. Adjustable-focus eyeglasses - Wikipedia

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   Adjustable focus eyeglasses have one focal length, but it is variable without having to change where one is looking. Possible uses for such glasses are to provide inexpensive eyeglasses for people from low-income groups, developing countries, third world countries or to accommodate for presbyopia.

5. GI glasses - Wikipedia

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   GI glasses are eyeglasses issued by the American military to its service members. Dysphemisms for them include the most common " birth control glasses " ( BCGs ) and other variants. At one time, they were officially designated as regulation prescription glasses ( RPGs ).

6. Porro prism - Wikipedia

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   Porro prisms are most often used in pairs, forming a double Porro prism. A second prism rotated 90° with respect to the first, is placed such that light will traverse both prisms. The net effect of the prism system is a beam parallel to but displaced from its original direction, with the image rotated 180°.

7. Four prism dioptre reflex test - Wikipedia

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   The Four Prism Dioptre Reflex Test (also known as the 4 PRT, or 4 Prism Dioptre Base-out Test) is an objective, non-dissociative test used to prove the alignment of both eyes (i.e. the presence of binocular single vision) by assessing motor fusion. [1]