| AO | abdominal aorta; achievement orientation; acid output; acridine orange; ankle orthosis; anodal openi... |
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| DOA | date of admission; dead on arrival; Department of Agriculture; depth of anesthesia; differential opt... |
| DOS | day of surgery; deoxystreptamine; disk operating system; Doctor of Ocular Science; Doctor of Optical... |
| IOD | injured on duty; integrated optical density; interorbital distance |
| MORD | magnetic optical rotatory dispersion |
| ground-glass pattern | Radiographic or CT appearance of hazy opacity which fails to obscure pulmonary vascular markings. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| water glass | <chemistry> See Soluble glass, under Glass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wood's glass | A glass containing nickel oxide, used in Wood's lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cover glass | A thin glass disk or plate covering an object examined under the microscope. Synonym: coverslip. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crookes' glass | A spectacle lens combined with metallic oxides to absorb ultraviolet or infrared rays. (05 Mar 2000) |
| crown glass | A compound of lime, potash, alumina, and silica; commonly used in lenses; has a low dispersion (52.2) relative to index of refraction (1.523). (05 Mar 2000) |
| cupping glass | A glass vessel, from which the air has been exhausted by heat or a special suction apparatus, formerly applied to the skin in order to draw blood to the surface. See: cupping, cup. Synonym: cup. (05 Mar 2000) |
| half-glass spectacles | Spectacles, used for reading, in which the upper portion of the lenses are removed. Synonym: clerical spectacles, pantoscopic spectacles, pulpit spectacles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soluble glass | A silicate of potassium or sodium, soluble in hot water but solid at ordinary temperatures; used for fixed dressings. Synonym: water glass. (05 Mar 2000) |
| specific optical dispersion | <microscopy> The difference between the refractive indices of light of two different wavelengths, both indices measured at the same temperature, the difference being divided by the specific gravity also measured in the same medium at the test temperature. For convenience, the specific dispersion value is multiplied by ten. (05 Aug 1998) |
| quartz glass | A transparent, colourless crystal, made by fusing pure quartz sand, which transmits ultraviolet light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| object glass | 1. <psychology> Perceptible to the external senses. 2. <ophthalmology> The lens or system of lenses in a microscope (or telescope) that is nearest to the object under examination. Origin: L. Objectivus (18 Nov 1997) |
| opera-glass hand | A deformity of the hand seen in chronic absorptive arthritis, the fingers and wrists being shortened and the covering skin wrinkled into transverse folds; the phalanges appear to be retracted into one another like an opera glass or miniature telescope. Synonym: main en lorgnette. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optical | 1. Of or pertaining to vision or sight. "The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views." (Milton) 2. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. 3. Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works. <optics> Optic angle, a graduated circle used for the measurement of angles in optical experiments. Optical square, a surveyor's instrument with reflectors for laying off right angles. Origin: F. Optique, Gr.; akin to sight, I have seen, I shall see, and to the two eyes, face, L. Oculus eye. See Ocular, Eye, and cf. Canopy, Ophthalmia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| optical aberration | Failure of rays from a point source to form a perfect image after traversing an optical system. (05 Mar 2000) |