Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans.
Like most professions, optometry education, certification, and practice is regulated in most countries. Optometrists and optometry-related organizations interact with governmental agencies, other health care professionals, and the community to deliver eye and vision care. Optometry is on...
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Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans.
Like most professions, optometry education, certification, and practice is regulated in most countries. Optometrists and optometry-related organizations interact with governmental agencies, other health care professionals, and the community to deliver eye and vision care. Optometry is one of three eye care professions, the others being Ophthalmology (which is a branch of surgery) and Orthoptics (a sub-specialty of ophthalmology primarily dealing with strabismus).
The term "optometry" comes from the Greek word optos, meaning eye or vision, and metria, meaning measurement.
The eye, including its structure and mechanism, has fascinated scientists and the public in general since ancient times. Many of the expressions in the English language that mean to understand are equivalent vision terms. "I see", to mean I understand.
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