| Medical Abbreviations | Ocular Abbreviations | Eyeware | Machines | Equipment |
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Blood Pressure
What does BP stand for?
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Right, Left, and Both eyes
What is OD, OS, and OU?
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Contact lenses
What is cls?
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Gets an estimated prescription for the doctor and tests the patients eye pressure
What does the AR/NCT do?
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Ishihara tests color deficiencies. Stereo test depth perception and normal stereo vision.
What are the Ishihara and Stereo books?
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Blood sugar
What does BS stand for?
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Intraocular Pressure
What is IOP?
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Glasses
What is gls?
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Ultra-widefield retinal imaging
What is an Optomap?
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Helps focus light and removes the effects of refractive errors to test visual acuity.
What is a Pinhole Occluder?
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Headache
What does HA stand for?
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Age Related Macular Degeneration
What is ARMD?
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Wave Corneal Molding
What is WCM?
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Optical coherence tomography.A non-invasive imaging test that uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina
What is an OCT?
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A device that projects light
What is a Transilluminator?
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Surgery
What is Sx?
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Primary Open Angle Glaucoma
What is POAG?
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Sunglasses
What is Suns?
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Can determine if you have blind spots in your vision and where they are. Test peripheral vision and sensitivity to lights.
What is a Visual Field Machine?
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Gets a patients eye pressure (most accurate)
What is a Goldmann Tonometer?
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Diagnosis
What is Dx?
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Epiretinal Membrane
What is ERM?
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Antireflective coating
What is AR?
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Machine used to determine a patients prescription
What is a Phoropter?
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Shines light into the patient's eye and observes the reflection (reflex) off the patient's retina (retinoscope). Measurement of the refractive error in a patients eye (skiascopy bars)
What is a Retinoscope and Skiascopy bars?
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