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Definition of Perimetry
1. n. The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.
Definition of Perimetry
1. Noun. (medicine) The systematic measurement of light sensitivity in the visual field by the detection of the presence of test targets on a defined background. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perimetry
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Medical Definition of Perimetry
1. The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perimetry
Literary usage of Perimetry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Delimitation of the Visual Fields (perimetry) A preliminary rough test may be
made as follows: ... perimetry is indispensable for exact neurological work. ..."
2. A Manual of Experimental Physiology for Students of Medicine by Winfield Scott Hall (1904)
"perimetry. In the foregoing experiments we have dealt exclusively with what is
called direct vision—ie, with phenomena involving the formation of a clearly ..."
3. Papers to be Presented Before the Section on Ophthalmology of the American by Section on Ophthalmology, American Medical Association, American Medical Association Section on Ophthalmology (1917)
"NEUROLOGIC perimetry AND A METHOD OF IMITATING DAYLIGHT WITH ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION *
CLIFFORD B. WALKER, AM, MD- Assistant in Ophthalmology, Medical School ..."
4. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"Sensibility of Different Parts of the Retina—perimetry.—The perception of colours,
like the perception of white light, is not equally distinct over the ..."
5. The Eye and Nervous System: Their Diagnostic Relations by William Campbell Posey, William Gibson Spiller (1906)
"... perimetry; COLORBLINDNESS; PERIPHERAL BLINDNESS, AND SUBJEC TIVE VISUAL
SENSATIONS; AMBLYOPIA. BY CASEY A. WOOD, MD Inspection of the Eye. ..."
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