Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
add power
English answer:
how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ...
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liz askew
Mar 5, 2007 22:12
17 yrs ago
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English term
Bulgaria
Native in: Bulgarian 
Works in: English to Bulgarian, Bulgarian, Bulgarian to English, and 1 more.
add power
English
Medical
Medical (general)
ophtalmology
Determining Add Power
Early presbyopes requiring up to a +2.00 diopter add power should be started with the low add series (L). More advanced presbyopes requiring add power correction should be started with the high add series (H).
what is add power? thank you!!
Early presbyopes requiring up to a +2.00 diopter add power should be started with the low add series (L). More advanced presbyopes requiring add power correction should be started with the high add series (H).
what is add power? thank you!!
Responses
| 4 +1 | how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ... |
liz askew
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| 3 +2 | The optical power of the eye. Link below |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ...
This is an informative site about eye prescriptions.
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:g4-4MFARUqMJ:www.myopti...
ADD = how much power gets added to the distance Rx, for your reading-only Rx
or for the bottom half of your bifocals/progressives
Rx = prescription.
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:g4-4MFARUqMJ:www.myopti...
ADD = how much power gets added to the distance Rx, for your reading-only Rx
or for the bottom half of your bifocals/progressives
Rx = prescription.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you all!"
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5 mins
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Native in English
&
English
Specializes in field
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27
The optical power of the eye. Link below
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Elena Aleksandrova
8 hrs
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| neutral |
Tony M
: It's not really 'of the eye', but of the correction to be made
11 hrs
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| agree |
Pham Huu Phuoc
14 hrs
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