Tear spreading rates: Post-blink

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 506 B, Issue , 2002, Pages 1201-1204

  Owens, Helen ^a   Phillips, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION; TEAR FILM; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0036921713     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0717-8_170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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