What are the Visual Benefits of Eyelid Squinting?

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 740-744

  Sheedy, James E ^a   Truong, Susan D ^a   Hayes, John R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyelids; Glare; Orbicularis; Refractive error; Squint; Visual acuity; Visual fields

Indexed keywords

GLARE; LIGHT REFRACTION; VISION;

EYESTRAIN; VISUAL ACUITY (VA);

EYE MOVEMENTS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE REFRACTION; EYELID; EYELID CLOSURE; EYELID SQUINT; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GLARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; MEASUREMENT; MYOPIA; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; EYELIDS; HUMANS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0242628981     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200311000-00009     Document Type: Article

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