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Definition of orthoptics in English: orthopticsplural noun ɔːˈθɒptɪksɔrˈθɑptɪks treated as singular The study or treatment of irregularities of the eyes, especially those of the eye muscles that prevent normal binocular vision. Example sentencesExamples - Orthoptics, which literally means "straightening of the eyes", dates back to the 1850s and is limited in scope to eye-muscle training and the cosmetic straightening of eyes.
- A course in orthoptics takes three years of study.
- Situated in a busy teaching hospital, the Academic Unit of Ophthalmology and Orthoptics provides facilities for both clinical and laboratory based research.
- Orthoptists are concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of ocular motility and problems relating to vision.
- It will also facilitate speech and language therapy, community welfare, orthoptics, psychology, home support services, home meals services and day care services for older people.
Derivatives adjective ɔːˈθɒptɪkɔrˈθɑptɪk Plastic spectacle prisms, based on the same principle, are invaluable orthoptic aids to therapy. Example sentencesExamples - Prescribed orthoptic treatment. This relates to the correction of vision through exercising the eye muscles.
- The professional body for orthoptists, with contact and organisational details, equipment suppliers and information for patients.
- A prospective UK cohort study found no difference in the prevalence of amblyopia between children who had been offered primary orthoptic screening at 3 years and children offered only surveillance by a health visitor.
- To study binocular functions orthoptic methods may be used and when studying visual fixation eye-trackers may be used.
noun ɔːˈθɒptɪstɔrˈθɑptəst Amblyopia is treated by an eye specialist and an orthoptist (a specialist in childhood eye problems). Example sentencesExamples - In the future, the government plans that a sight test should be given by an orthoptist (a specialist in vision and eye abnormalities) between the ages of 4 and 5 years.
- Children in the intensive-screening group received age-appropriate visual testing and assessment by an orthoptist at eight, 12, 18, 25, 31, and 37 months of age.
- So ideally, for children to go through the early child health clinics, involving family doctors orthoptists, nurses, to make the screening available.
- As well as optics and refraction it includes anatomy, physiology, neurology, and child development, ensuring that orthoptists are particularly suited to examine vision in very young children.
Origin Late 19th century: from ortho- 'correct' + Greek optikos (see optic). Definition of orthoptics in US English: orthopticsplural nounɔrˈθɑptɪksôrˈTHäptiks treated as singular The study or treatment of disorders of vision, especially of eye movements or eye alignment. Example sentencesExamples - Situated in a busy teaching hospital, the Academic Unit of Ophthalmology and Orthoptics provides facilities for both clinical and laboratory based research.
- Orthoptists are concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of ocular motility and problems relating to vision.
- Orthoptics, which literally means "straightening of the eyes", dates back to the 1850s and is limited in scope to eye-muscle training and the cosmetic straightening of eyes.
- A course in orthoptics takes three years of study.
- It will also facilitate speech and language therapy, community welfare, orthoptics, psychology, home support services, home meals services and day care services for older people.
Origin Late 19th century: from ortho- ‘correct’ + Greek optikos (see optic). |