Optometrist: A health care professional who is licensed to provide primary eye care services
- to examine and diagnose eye diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, and retinal diseases and, in certain countries, to treat them;
- to diagnose related systemic (bodywide) conditions such as hypertension and diabetes that may affect the eyes;
- to examine, diagnose and treat visual conditions such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia; and
- to prescribe glasses, contact lenses, low vision rehabilitation and medications as well as perform minor surgical procedures such as the removal of foreign bodies.
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