OPTOM 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Twin, Refractive Error, Refraction
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Associate clinical professor, uc berkeley school of optometry. Myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia: what are they: refractive error: focusing problems of the eye, myopia (nearsightedness) Chief complaint: blurry vision, squinting to see, other people can see things better, night driving is difficult, i can"t see the power point. Florida is 20/60 (old ppl live in florida) Nowhere to go in singapore, no outside space for them! How to fix eyesight / correcting myopia: concave lens diverges light (caved in on either side, concave lengths diverges light, note edge thickness designated as. How to fix hyperopia: convex lens, do hyperopes ever need glasses, reading glasses, high hyperopia, people who cannot accommodate. Fun facts: dimmer light = pupils get larger, focusing errors of your eyes get. Worse: candlelight dinner = terrible, the taller you are, the longer your arms are, the later presbyopia will bother you because you can hold things farther away!
