What's the difference between oculist and ophthalmologist?

Oculist


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical aspects of the chronic congenital postencephalitic toxoplasma is so clear for the oculist.
  • (2) In 1751 the oculist Joseph Hillmer was expelled as charlatan from Petersburg by an expert opinion, which was founded on 125 case reports on his Russian clients, amongst them 60 suffering from cataracts, which had been couched on 80 eyes.
  • (3) About 1795, the oculist Casaamata tried to put into effect Tadini's idea.
  • (4) The oculists who visited Berlin had demonstrated this new surgical method at least 15 years earlier.
  • (5) In addition to his teaching activities--from 1778 to 1803 he was Professor of Economics, Public Finances and Political Science--Jung-Stilling remained a well-known oculist and an outstanding cataract surgeon to the end of his life.
  • (6) We know quite a lot about the life of the oculist Joseph Hillmer of Vienna between 1746-1775, especially from newspapers of that time.
  • (7) 40 patients with idiopathic optic neuritis (ON) between 1st January 1967 and 31st December 1977 have been checked again from oculistic and neurological point of view between 1st January and 31st March 1983.
  • (8) The oculist should be consulted however, to exclude possible retinopathia.
  • (9) In all these patients the oculist had considered carotid artery stenosis to be a possible reason for the present eye disease or visual disturbance.
  • (10) On the basis of the data supplied, a continuous, increasingly assiduous clinico-experimental give-and-take between oculist and gynaecologist is recommended to prevent possible eye complications.
  • (11) The work of Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling (1740-1817), the "Oculist of the Age of Goethe", is also a world of the eye and of light.
  • (12) All children with rheumatoid uveitis require dispensarization under constant control of the oculist and rheumatologist, this allowing to decrease the number of complications of the process, to decide on optimal terms for surgical treatment of the seguelae of the disease and to conduct corresponding pathogenetic therapy.
  • (13) The development of ophthalmology in Münster is described from the itinerant oculists and sooth-sayers of the middle ages to the completion of the enlargements to the eye clinic in the year 1977.
  • (14) In case of treating facial injuries the cooperation of the oculist, the laryngologist, the odontologist, the neurosurgeon is indispensable.
  • (15) Andrew Sexton Gray was born in Limerick, Ireland, medically trained in Dublin, and was assistant to William Wilde, the distinguished oculist and aurist.
  • (16) At any rate, Casanova's memoirs record a meeting with Tadini and make mention of the oculist's box of artificial glass lenses for placement in the eye.
  • (17) There is much to indicate that she was motivated by tactical diplomacy, since the oculist had been involved in such matters by the Prussian king during the preliminaries to the Third Silestan War (1756-1763).
  • (18) In 1751 a German oculist, Joseph Hillmer, has been expelled from Petersburg, for the reason that he was a charlatan.
  • (19) While we do not have the operative tables that allow us to perform that inclination as low as oculists are used to operate sitting and with microscope, we suggest a simple way to obtain the inclination in a common low stretcher, with a triangular pillow.
  • (20) John Taylor was surgeon-oculist to King George II, and claimed to be Ophthalmiater Royal to the Pope and to the Emperor, along with a multitude of royalties, including a mythical Princess of Georgia and the Viceroy of the Indies.

Ophthalmologist


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in ophthalmology; an oculist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The differential diagnosis of viral retinitis is mainly based on the evaluation of the clinical findings by the ophthalmologist; for confirmation of the diagnosis, immunohistological testing is necessary.
  • (2) The ophthalmologist must explain to the child and the parents that dyslexia usually has no ophthalmological or visual cause but is a disability with a neurobiological background, still unknown, in which the only efficient treatment is within the area of pedagogy.
  • (3) A prospective study was performed by 30 ophthalmologists to determine the prevalence of exfoliation syndrome (ES) in different areas of France and its relationship with glaucoma.
  • (4) Knowledge of the incidence of both short- and long-term elevation of intraocular pressure (IOP) after extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC-IOL) insertion is essential for the practicing ophthalmologist.
  • (5) Almost all the latter physicians were general ophthalmologists.
  • (6) The patient (and his attorney) blame the eye drops and the prescribing ophthalmologist.
  • (7) Ophthalmologists treating similar lesions may be able to reduce persistent neovascularization and the associated visual loss by covering the entire lesion with treatment.
  • (8) The authors stressed that ophthalmologists should not only look for luxation of the lens in children who are suspected of having CMC syndrome.
  • (9) All practising ophthalmologists in Queensland completed a written survey on their current methods of treatment of pterygia.
  • (10) While most of the tissue is handled by the Eye Bank of Canada (Ontario Division), ophthalmologists in centers away from the Eye Bank often use local tissue when it is available.
  • (11) Although further investigation will be necessary to prove a cause-and-effect relationship, ophthalmologists encountering patients with otherwise unexplained cases of retinal vasculitis, or Eales disease, are encouraged to study these patients carefully for the possibility of Borrelia burgdorferi infection.
  • (12) A team including the neurologist, internist, ophthalmologist, and surgeon optimizes care of the whole disease and not just the symptom.
  • (13) Orthoptists' results using the simple retinoscopy compared well with the full retinoscopic findings of the ophthalmologists, with an overall sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 74%.
  • (14) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
  • (15) The program receives consultation from the Children's Vision Services Advisory Committee, consisting of optometrists, ophthalmologists and others in health and education programs.
  • (16) The patients were followed by a team consisting of a paediatric ophthalmologist, a contact lens optician and an orthoptist.
  • (17) Injuries caused by foreign bodies that do not penetrate the outer coats of the eye can be treated by the nonspecialist; the intraocular presence of an object requires prompt referral to an ophthalmologist.
  • (18) It has been shown that an ultrasound system such as the Bronson-Turner Contact B Mode can be added, fruitfully, to the armamentarium of the individual pediatric ophthalmologist.
  • (19) The mean age at the time of surgery was 72.7 years for the ophthalmologists and 66.4 years for the FACS members.
  • (20) For the ophthalmologist and otorhinolaryngologist a knowledge of the various therapeutic possibilities is important in order to adjust treatment accordingly.

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