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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Medical examination and analysis of the refractive properties of the eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Skiascopy.
- noun Examination of the retina with an ophthalmoscope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine
Analysis of therefractive properties of theeye using aretinoscope ;skiascopy .
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