optometry
noun
op·tom·e·try
äp-ˈtä-mə-trē 
: the health care profession concerned especially with examining the eye for defects and faults of refraction, with prescribing correctional lenses or eye exercises, with diagnosing diseases of the eye, and with treating such diseases or referring them for treatment
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Before the war, Faraj owned a grocery store and his wife ran an optometry center in Shuja’iyya, an eastern neighbourhood of Gaza City.
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Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Popular majors include engineering, computer science, architecture and design, and the institute offers dual-admissions programs in medicine, optometry, pharmacy, law and business.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Optometrists complete a four-year school of optometry and receive an OD degree, while ophthalmologists are physicians who attend medical school or osteopathic medical school and residency in surgery and medicine, receiving an MD or DO degree.
—Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 28 July 2025
There are optometry roll-ups, pest control roll-ups, carwash roll-ups, laundromat roll-ups, and multiple financial advisory firm roll-ups, of which Edelman is among the oldest and biggest.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 12 June 2025
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Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Popular majors include engineering, computer science, architecture and design, and the institute offers dual-admissions programs in medicine, optometry, pharmacy, law and business.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Optometrists complete a four-year school of optometry and receive an OD degree, while ophthalmologists are physicians who attend medical school or osteopathic medical school and residency in surgery and medicine, receiving an MD or DO degree.
—Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 28 July 2025
There are optometry roll-ups, pest control roll-ups, carwash roll-ups, laundromat roll-ups, and multiple financial advisory firm roll-ups, of which Edelman is among the oldest and biggest.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 12 June 2025
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“Optometry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/optometry. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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optometry
noun
op·tom·e·try
äp-ˈtäm-ə-trē
: the profession of examining the eyesight and prescribing corrective lenses or eye exercises to improve vision and of diagnosing and sometimes treating diseases of the eye
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optometry
noun
op·tom·e·try
-trē
plural optometries
: the health-care profession concerned especially with examining the eye for defects and faults of refraction, with prescribing corrective lenses or eye exercises, with diagnosing diseases of the eye, and with treating such diseases or referring them for treatment
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