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Definition of eye doctor

noun

an ophthalmologist.

an optometrist.

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Origin of eye doctor

First recorded in 1880–85

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The term eye doctor refers generally to an ophthalmologist, but is also used informally (and imprecisely) in referring to an optometrist. An ophthalmologist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye. Ophthalmologists may prescribe and fit eyeglasses and contact lenses and also treat eye diseases with drugs and surgery. An optometrist is not a physician. Optometrists are professionally licensed to test a person for vision defects, prescribe and fit glasses and contact lenses, and prescribe therapeutic exercises, but they do not perform surgery and in most U.S. states may not prescribe drugs. An optician is licensed to make, sell, and fit glasses and, in most U.S. states, contact lenses prescribed by an ophthalmologist or optometrist. The term oculist, which formerly referred to an ophthalmologist, is no longer used.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH eye doctor

eye doctor , ophthalmologist, optician, optometrist (see synonym study at the current entry)

Words nearby eye doctor

eye contact, eyecup, eyed, eye dialect, eyedness, eye doctor, eye dog, eyedropper, eye drops, eye-filling, eyefold

How to use eye doctor in a sentence

In a survey by the American Optometric Association, 83 percent of eye doctors said they noticed an increase in vision problems related to screen time during the pandemic.
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If you’re going to an optician, who fills prescriptions from eye doctors but doesn’t do exams, masks should also be required there, and the store should limit the number of people allowed inside.
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With cyclopentolate eye drops, the stuff your eye doctor uses to dilate pupils.
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He constructed the first ophthalmoscope, which is a device that eye doctors use to look at the inside of the eye, but struggled with finding the proper amount of targeted light to use.
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My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
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That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.
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The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
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This attack, coming just days after the PlayStation DDoS, was certainly an eye-opener.
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They eye the door anxiously, convinced that at any moment, a Pakistani or Iranian intelligence officer will come barging in.
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But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
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As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.
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As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
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The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
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