Snellen


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Noun1.Snellen - Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908)
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(14) While that study did report some improvement with spinal manipulation, the outcome measure which the authors used was novel and did not take into account the logarithmic scaling of the Snellen eye chart used to measure acuity.
This all leads to the final chapter where Paul Van Tongeren and Paulien Snellen provide an interesting, though somewhat disappointing, discussion of what environmental hermeneutics can offer to environmental ethics.
Ignas Snellen of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and colleagues analyzed the planet's spectrum.
Vision should be tested using a Snellen chart in suspected corneal ulcer.
They were asked to perform a standard eye chart test called the Snellen Tumbling E test, which asked participants to view the letter E turned in four different directions and in various sizes.
At the medical examination he was asked to read the Snellen Chart to test his visual capability.
The visual acuity requirement comprised better than 20/400 Snellen equivalent and a documented central scotoma in the better-seeing eye.
Vision was reduced to 0.1 Snellen. Slit lamp examination revealed a mobile parasite swimming like a fish in the anterior chamber of the eye (online Appendix Video, www.cdc.gov/EID/content/17/5/870-appV.htm); signs of local inflammation with cells and Tyndall phenomena were present.