Spontaneous blink rate of a normal population sample

International Contact Lens Clinic

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 29-32

  Al Abdulmunem, Mosa'ad ^a   Briggs, Stella T ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Blink rate; Contact lens; Dry eye; Mental activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033095411     PISSN: 08928967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-8967(99)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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