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The process of quantifying and setting the laser to the needed energy for correct tissue removal. Some machines carve a PMMA plastic button to be measured by optical apparatuses, and others employ a 1 micron thick foil as a process of calibration.

A sluggishly increasing lump that forms due to obstruction and swelling of an oil gland in the eyelid.

A type of steroid hormones used to treat a range of inflammatory disorders. Chronic use may lead to creation of posterior subcapsular cataracts.

A state occurring in persons with diabetes, which causes progressive damage to the retina, the light sensitive lining at the back of the eye.

In eye wellbeing, typically refers to the pupil (the hole in the midpoint of the iris that opens and narrows in reaction to light levels).

Also named diplopia. When two images of the same object are perceived by one or both eyes.

A usual condition that happens when the eyes do not produce sufficient tears to keep the eye moist and comfortable.

Progressive thinning and bulging of the cornea.

The cornea’s inner layer of cells

A difficulty of LASIK in which epithelial cells (cellular tissue that shields the outside of body surfaces, including the outer of the cornea) grow underside the corneal flap.