optometrist vs ophthalmologist
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noun
- a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses
Examples
He called the optometrist's office and was told the difference was being kept by the practice as a credit toward future visits.
We would also be willing to direct you to amply qualified optometrists, psychiatrists and educational institutions.
Hudson falls for wife of man he killed, studies, cures her uncurable blindness in bare-chested operation-starts in death, ends in salvation, and updates a medieval mythology of efficacious grace into the apostatic 50s of luxury condos and kultchah, with uneasy overtones of capitalist will-to-power: a full-grown stereotype of moonlit joy rides, canted California beachlight, Swiss oompahpah, the world's best optometrists in labcoats, a hidden desert valley in Arizona that exists only for a hospital that exists only as the bedspring of recovery-emotional and physical-for our cut-out protagonists.
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noun
- a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye
Examples
However, some ophthalmologists have treated patients with eye injections of an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid called triamcinolone, though its effectiveness had not been tested in a clinical trial.
Medical graduates in Australasia can train to be ophthalmologists in about four years.
Corneal transplantation, known as corneal grafting or penetrating keratoplasty, represents a surgical procedure performed by ophthalmologists, that includes the replacement of a damaged or diseased cornea, the clear part of eye in front of the iris and pupil, with a donated corneal tissue, extracted from a deceased person.
