Medical Abbreviations | Ocular Abbreviations | Eyeware | Testing Procedures | Equipment |
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What is the abbreviation for blood pressure?
BP
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What is abbreviation for Right, Left, and Both eyes?
OD, OS, and OU
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What is the abbreviation for Contact lenses?
CL
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What test gets an estimated prescription for the doctor AND tests the patients eye pressure?
AR/NCT
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What measures the PD or Pupilary distance for near or distance?
Pupilometer
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What is the abbreviation for Dilated Fundus Exam?
DFE
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What is abbreviation for Intraocular Pressure?
IOP
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What is Antireflective coating like Crizal 360 or Viso XC+UV? OR Autorefraction?
AR
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What is photographing the back of an eye; also known as the fundus?
Fundus Photography
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What is the machine that contains different lenses used for refraction to determine eyeglass prescription?
Phoropter
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What is the abbreviation for Headache?
HA
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What is abbreviation for Age Related Macular Degeneration?
ARMD
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What is Ultralitestyle, center thickness 1.0?
1.0
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What is a non-invasive imaging test that uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina also known as Optical Coherence Tomography?
OCT
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What is a device that projects light? Also known as the handheld thing lying on the desk at the end of the exam.
Transilluminator
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What is the abbreviation for Symptoms?
Sx
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What is abbreviation for Primary Open Angle Glaucoma?
POAG
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What is an aspheric lens?
A digital lens design with flatter curves than conventional lenses, giving them a slimmer, more attractive profile.
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What is a test to determine if you have blind spots in your vision and where they test peripheral vision and sensitivity to lights?
Visual Field Testing
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What tool gets a patients eye pressure (most accurate)?
Goldmann Tonometer
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What is the abbreviation for Diagnosis?
Dx
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What is the abbreviation for Epiretinal Membrane?
ERM
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What is prism?
What is used in eyeglasses for some people who have double vision to help align the two images, so that only one is image is seen?
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What is an auto retraction (AR) done when the eye is dilated? The doctor may write them time you should take it.
Wet AR
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What helps focus light and removes the effects of refractive errors to test visual acuity?
Pinhole Occluder
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