What's the difference between eyeglasses and lorgnette?
Eyeglasses
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Optimal radiation protection of the eyes during fluoroscopy depends not only on eyeglasses with leaded glass, but also on shielding of sufficient size and shape to reduce exposure to the surrounding head.
(2) This paper discusses methods for improving vision in the dental operatory and details a new design for eyeglasses suitable for the presbyopic dentist.
(3) Numerous eyeglass lens materials have been recommended for protection of radiologists' eyes from the cataractogenic effect of radiation during fluoroscopic procedures.
(4) Patient assessment of dental prostheses, hearing aids, and eyeglasses can provide valuable data regarding adaptability of geriatric patients.
(5) To aid the partially sighted in writing on small areas, such as bank drafts, a clip-on eyeglass loupe (11 diopters, 3.5 inches, Bausch and Lomb) attached to a finepoint felt pen provides adequate vision.
(6) These lesions, located along the retroauricular fold and on the nasal bridge, are caused by ill-fitting eyeglasses.
(7) A model of ocular and facial skin exposure to UVB is presented that combines interview histories of work activities, leisure activities, eyeglass wearing, and hat use with field and laboratory measurements of UV radiant exposure.
(8) An improved gauge using an eyeglass frame, the TOM gauge, was devised.
(9) Vision acuity of 0.05-0.3 diopters (with eyeglass correction) was achieved in 74.1 percent of cases, that of 0.1-0.3 diopters in 29.9 percent.
(10) These forms, along with the striking "eyeglass" configuration of incompletely separated cells that were also present, are the diagnostic features of this apparently rare variety.
(11) Conrad von Soest depicted an apostle in reading glasses in the Niederwildungen Altarpiece in 1403, and there are mentions of the use of eyeglasses dating back to antiquity.
(12) Appropriate eyeglasses may be matched with the curing unit used.
(13) My prescription eyeglasses were taken away from me and I was forced to sit in essential blindness."
(14) A 12-yr-old anisometropic patient had worn corrective eyeglasses (right eye, -0.50 +1.50 x 125; LE, -9.75 +2.50 x 60) for 7 yr, and then changed to contact lenses.
(15) Since eyewear may have a photoprotective effect, this study evaluated the use of prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses in patients with periorbital basal cell carcinoma compared with other facial sites.
(16) Reported herein are two different mathematical procedures for simulating transfer functions of the feedback path of an eyeglass-type hearing aid.
(17) As a consequence, incidence rates for blindness are higher for the black population than the white population.Statistics show that black children requiring eyeglasses are less likely to receive eyeglasses than similar age-matched white children.
(18) Before eyeglass wear best corrected acuity was reduced for both eyes with the left eye acuity significantly lower than the right.
(19) After surgery on the proximal nose, wearing eyeglasses can be difficult and uncomfortable.
(20) It is concluded that eyeglasses did not serve as an efficient discriminating feature in recognition memory, and it is recommended that positive eyewitness identification of people wearing spectacles be treated with particular caution.
Lorgnette
Definition:
(n.) An opera glass
(n.) elaborate double eyeglasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only 20 patients had severely erosive disease, which manifested as giant geodes in 8 cases and as main en lorgnette deformity in one case.