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62 Cards in this Set
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Lensometer |
Spring loased are on a lenometer or vertometer that holds lens for reading and marking |
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Abbe value |
Meaaure materials to disperse light |
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Which occupants would be best suited for a double segment lens? |
Electrician |
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Selecting a frame for a progressive power lens candidate avoid |
Aviator shaped frame PD larger than patients PD |
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Reverse slab off is for |
plus power |
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Multifocal height measures from |
Lower edge of lens |
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Distance between segments and fused double segment multifocals in most cases is |
13mm |
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Semi rimless mounting |
Center piece w lens bars connecting endpiece to temples |
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Geneva lens measures |
Base curve |
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Corrected curve lenses |
Less oblique astigmatism |
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Power drum |
Large wheel on lensometer or vertometer used to read the power of lens |
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Near or accommodative reflex |
Papillary construction, accommodation and convergence |
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Retina |
Back of the eye, retina senses light and creates impulses sent through optic nerve |
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Scotoma |
Reduced sensivity or loss of vision |
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Aspheric lenticular |
Aspheric lens to improve thickness and weight in High plus powers |
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Chromatic aberration |
Breaking up of white light by lens material |
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Prism reference point, same as major reference point |
Point on lens specified prism in perscription |
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Sphere power |
Corrects myopia, hyperopia or presbyopia but mot dor astigmatism |
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Iseikonic lenses |
Reduce anisekona from magnification between right and left eye in anisometropia |
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Hinge |
Connnets temple to endpiece |
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Right is minus and left is plus is condition called |
Auntie metropia |
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Cataract spectacle lens are best as |
Aspheric curves |
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Vertical angle or nose pads |
Requires bottom edge of pad to be closer to a wires then top edges of pads |
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Monel |
Frame made of nickel and copper, lightweight. Most used in metal frames |
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Reticle |
Thin black circles seen in a piece of lensometer or vertometer. Marking verification of power and measure prisms |
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Spray angle or nose pads |
Angle of slope of crest of nose to inner eye area |
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Vertex power |
Total Power of Lens in dioptric units |
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Axis drum |
Large drum on lensometer Mark 0 to 180 degrees, finds access location |
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Crown glass index of refraction is |
1.523 |
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C.R. 39 index of refraction is |
1.49 |
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Polycarb index of refraction is |
1.586 |
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High index of refraction is |
1.6 |
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Flint glass index of refraction is |
1.805 |
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Polycarb specific gravity is |
1.20 , and abbe value is 31 |
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Crown glass specific gravity is |
2.54 , and abbe value is 58 |
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C.r. 39 specific gravity is |
1.32 , and abbe value is 58 |
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High index glass specific gravity is |
2.73, abbe value is 42. high index gravity is 3.37 , abbe value 25 |
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Listings plane |
Imaginary ocular plane lying on the X & Y axis |
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A verto meter cannot measure or locate the |
Bifocal segment, it also cant measure a aspheric lens |
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A C.R. 39 lens used for cataract is |
Lenticular |
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Vertex power is the lens |
Thickness |
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Zylonite |
Plastic frame made of cellulose acetate. Commenly used frame |
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Temple |
Frame that extends hinge to ear that holds against skull |
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Focal point |
Where rays of light converge or diverge after refraction through lens |
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Reticle |
Prism measurement indicator on vertometer or lensometer |
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Main reason lenticular lens for high plus used is for |
Lighter weight |
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High dispersion like flint glass can cause |
Chromatic aberration discomfort |
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Optical cross shows |
Meridian powers of lens |
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Lens calipers are used for |
Lens thickness |
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When pantoscopic angle increases |
Lower optical centers |
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The "BOXING METHOD" LOCATES |
geometric center of lens |
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Prism power os determined by |
The amount lens turns light from its original course |
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Polycarbonate is |
Greater than that of crown glass |
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Ednpiece |
Connecta eyewire to hindge |
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Eyepiece |
Part of a lensometer or keratometet. The user looks. Eyepiece is focused by operator |
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Polyamide |
Frame made of nylon and other. Its injection molded, colorfast, hypergenic and flexible |
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Mires |
Luminous object projected through lensometer. One set of lines is sphere power. The other set is cylinder power |
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C size |
Measures in millimeters of circumference of an edged lens |
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Vergence |
When eye movements in eyes move away from each other |
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'A' box measurement |
Measures horizontal distance from farthest nasal point to farthest temporal point of shape |
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Binocular |
Both eyes working together |
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Convergence |
When eyes focus toward each other... To foucus on an object |