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of or relating to or capable of refraction

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capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)

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Dr Juan Arbelaez has been leading research in Cornea and Refractive Surgery in Muscat Eye Laser Center.
The international headache society has delineated headache due to refractive error in a methodical manner.
[ClickPress, Fri Apr 26 2019] The functional ability of optical elements, interfaces, and surfaces in directing phenomenal changes in the properties and behavior of light have translated milestones in the emergence and advances of refractive optical elements.
Majority of patients (70%) were less than 31 years of age who were interested to get good vision without glasses and were not suitable for laser refractive surgery.
It is very important as discussed by the worthy speakers about eye refractive errors; we will request council to start cataract and refractive surgery fellowship programs, he assured.
The ESCRS promotes education and research in the field of the implant and refractive surgery and advances the study and practice of ophthalmology.
Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a refractive error, which means that the eye does not bend or refract light properly to a single focus to see images clearly.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Apr 13 (Businesswire-India): LASIK and its variants, including Contoura Vision, SMILE and Femtosecond LASIK are the most popular refractive eye surgeries, for removal of glasses, and are all available at the Eye 7 hospitals.
(1,7) Because the pediatric eye is still developing, refractive changes occur during the postoperative childhood or adolescent years in patients who underwent IOL implantation for cataracts.
Many fiber-optic sensors for refractive index (RI) sensing have been developed due to some advantages such as small size, high sensitivity, light weight, and immunity to external electromagnetic interference.
This can be achieved by the introduction of an array of metamaterial with gradient refractive index at the aperture or inside the conventional horn [11, 12].
Characterization of Refractive Errors in a Population of Children from 2 to 14 Years of Age in Bogota, Colombia
After refractive surgery for myopia, both keratometry and corneal topography tend to overestimate the corneal power, and consequently the calculated IOL power is underestimated, with a high risk of postoperative hyperopia, which may lead to IOL exchange or a piggyback lens [1-9].