What's the difference between oculist and optician?

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.

Optician


Definition:

  • (a.) One skilled in optics.
  • (a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) General practitioners initiated referral in 546 cases (49%) and ophthalmic opticians referral in 439 (39%).
  • (2) The patients were followed by a team consisting of a paediatric ophthalmologist, a contact lens optician and an orthoptist.
  • (3) In this cataloguq he does not only mention the memorial and prize medals of ophthalmologists but also those of physicists, physiologists, surgeons, opticians who have made a name in the field of ophthalmology.
  • (4) After examination of the eyes and consultation of an optician, it was decided to measure the animal for a pair of spectacles.
  • (5) Among the most important landlord firms Southern Cross will have to win over to survive is London & Regional, the investment empire of former optician Ian Livingstone and his chartered surveyor brother Richard.
  • (6) NHS Nottinghamshire County wants patients to access primary care services via GPs, pharmacists, dentists and opticians and receive "the right care, in the right place, first time".
  • (7) In looking to the future of optometry and ophthalmology, the author identifies four interacting components--the public, optometrists, ophthalmologists, and eye-health-care manpower, including opticians--which he evaluates.
  • (8) The paper utilises direct evidence on a number of single modality screening options, including ophthalmoscopy undertaken by general practitioners or ophthalmic opticians, and non-mydriatic photography.
  • (9) Cosmus Conrad Cuno, a less well known optician and inventor of microscopes from the second half of the 17th century, published in 1734 at Augsburg his Observationes durch dessen verfertigte Microscopia where along with various observations he communicated salient details pertaining to the biology of the head louse.
  • (10) Seventy patients had glaucoma or incomplete features of glaucoma, all of them referred by ophthalmic opticians.
  • (11) Until now, low-vision counseling in Switzerland has been provided mainly by opticians and other paramedical personnel.
  • (12) General practitioners referred many more patients with disorders of the eyelids and adnexa and ophthalmic opticians many more patients with suspected glaucoma.
  • (13) An empirical section shows that price is 16 percent higher in states that ban optometric and optician price advertising, when examination length, procedures, and office equipment are held constant.
  • (14) "So we started with hospital comments and then introduced comments on GP practices, and since then we have rolled it out to pretty much every setting: pharmaceutical practices, opticians and walk-in centres.
  • (15) (A second group of 198 patients with macular degeneration was handled by the optician alone because either macular degeneration was moderate and the patients could manage with simple optical aids, or the patients were in such a bad mental condition, obvious already from the referral documents, that they were unable to use sophisticated aids in spite of the fact that they would have needed them with regard to their poor vision.)
  • (16) The refractive status of the twin pairs was ascertained by asking the twins to send their latest prescription for glasses to the authors or the refraction was obtained from the ophthalmologists or opticians of the twins.
  • (17) Students were asked to define the differences among optometrists, ophthalmologists, and opticians.
  • (18) The results demonstrate that there is a statistically higher prevalence of the majority of acute and also chronic symptoms among dental technicians than among opticians.
  • (19) The clinical assistants' referral grades formed the reference standard against which to assess the effectiveness of other screening methods including ophthalmoscopy by primary screeners who were general practitioners (GPs), ophthalmic opticians and hospital physicians, and the assessment by consultant ophthalmologists of non-mydriatic Polaroid fundus photography.
  • (20) During 18 months of follow up new visual and ocular defects among these children were ascertained through ophthalmology outpatients and from optician records.

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