ophthalmology

Noun
  1. The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases (synset 106063977)
    associated with:
    • slit lamp - (ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve
    • ametropia - (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia
    • emmetropia - (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina
    • myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness - (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
    • astigmatism, astigmia - (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people
    • hypermetropic, hyperopic - abnormal ability to focus of distant objects
    is a type of: medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

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