- orthoscopy
- or·thos·co·py (or-thosґkə-pe) examination of the eye by means of the orthoscope.
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orthoscopy
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Orthoscopy — used in optics and vision for the condition of normal, distortion free view, from ortho , straight, right, correct, and scope , seeing. Abbe in 1880[1] designed an orthoscopic eyepiece for stereoscopic microscopes which minimized distortion. The… … Wikipedia
Orthoscopic — Having correct vision or producing it. Orthoscopic, in other words, is free from optical distortion or designed to correct distorted vision. This fits with the prefix ortho , meaning straight or erect, and with scopic from the Greek skopein , to… … Medical dictionary
