| optometry | The professional practice of primary eye and vision care that includes the measurement of visual refractive power and the correction of visual defects with lenses or glasses. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Baudelocque, Louis | <person> French obstetrician, 1800-1864. See: Baudelocque's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Vaquez, Louis | <person> French physician, 1860-1936. See: Vaquez' disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Malassez, Louis | <person> French physiologist, 1842-1910. See: Malassezia, Malassez' epithelial rests. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gehrig, Henry Louis | <person> U.S. Baseball player; 1903-1941, victim of Lou Gehrig's disease. See: Lou Gehrig's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ranvier, Louis | <person> French pathologist, 1835-1922. See: Ranvier's crosses, Ranvier's disks, Ranvier's node, Ranvier's plexus, Ranvier's segment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pasteur, Louis | <person> A French chemist and biologist who founded the field of bacteriology and developed the germ theory. He also invented pasteurisation and created the first vaccines against anthrax and rabies. Lived: 1822-1895. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Chenais, Louis | <person> French physician, 1872-1950. See: Cestan-Chenais syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ripault, Louis | <person> French physician, 1807-1856. See: Ripault's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rocher, Henri Gaston Louis | <person> French surgeon, *1876. See: Rocher's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Milkman, Louis | <person> U.S. Roentgenologist, 1895-1951. See: Milkman's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wickham, Louis-Frederic | <person> French dermatologist, 1861-1913. See: Wickham's striae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wolff, Louis | <person> U.S. Cardiologist, 1898-1972. See: Wolff-Chaikoff block, Wolff-Chaikoff effect, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Muret, Paul-Louis | <person> French physician, *1878. See: Quenu-Muret sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Coppet, Louis de | <person> French physicist, 1841-1911. See: Coppet's law. (05 Mar 2000) |