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  2. Macular degeneration - Wikipedia

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    AMD by race and age from National Eye Institute data. As illustrated by the Figure in this section, derived from data presented by the National Eye Institute of the United States, [19] among those over 80 years of age, White individuals are more than 6-fold more likely to develop AMD than Black or Hispanic individuals. Thus, white background is ...

  3. Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous ...

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    Inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDDs), sometimes called Idiopathic (IIDDs) due to the unknown etiology of some of them, are a heterogenous group of demyelinating diseases - conditions that cause damage to myelin, the protective sheath of nerve fibers - that occur against the background of an acute or chronic inflammatory process.

  4. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Near point of convergence or no previous correction NRC Normal retinal correspondence NV Near vision NWT Normal wearing time o symptoms Zero symptoms ϕ Horizontal orthophoria θ Vertical orthophoria ⊕ Horizontal and vertical orthophoria OC's Optical centres Occ. Occupation OD oculus dexter (right eye) OH Ocular history OMB Oculo motor balance

  5. Sixth nerve palsy - Wikipedia

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    In a sixth nerve palsy one would expect that, over the 6 month observation period, most patients would show the following pattern of changes to their ocular muscle actions: firstly, an overaction of the medial rectus of the affected eye, then an overaction of the medial rectus of the contraletral eye and, finally, an underaction of the lateral ...

  6. Punctal plug - Wikipedia

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    A punctal plug, also known as tear duct plug or lacrimal plug, is a small medical device that is inserted into the tear duct (puncta) of an eye to block the duct. This prevents the drainage of liquid from the eye. They are used to treat dry eye. Artificial tears are usually still required after punctal plug insertion. [1]

  7. Signs and symptoms - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms are also applied to physiological states outside the context of disease, as for example when referring to the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, or the symptoms of dehydration. Sometimes a disease may be present without showing any signs or symptoms when it is known as being asymptomatic . [ 9 ]

  8. Abbe–Koenig prism - Wikipedia

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    The prism is also less bulky than the double Porro design. The prism is sometimes simply called a "roof prism", although this is ambiguous, because other roof prisms exist, such as the Amici and Schmidt–Pechan designs. A variant of the Abbe–Koenig prism replaces the "roof" section of the prism with a single mirror-coated reflecting surface.

  9. Anisometropia - Wikipedia

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    In this example the first eye, with a −1.00 diopter prescription, is the stronger eye, needing only slight correction to sharpen the image formed, and hence a thin spectacle lens. The second eye, with a −4.00 diopter prescription, is the weaker eye, needing moderate correction to sharpen the image formed, and hence a moderately thick ...