Eye Related Terms

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• Depth perception

The ability of the vision system to preceive the relative positions of objects in the visual field.



• Diabetes mellitus

A chronic metabolic disorder characterized by a lack of insulin secretion and/or increased cellular resistance to insulin, resulting in elevated blood levels of simple sugars (glucose) and including complications involving dama ge to the eyes, kidneys, nervous system and vascular system



• Diabetes type I IDDM

Insulin dependent, resulting from destruction of the insulin producing pancreatic islet cells



• Diabetes type II NIDDM

Non-insulin dependent, resulting from tissue resistance to insulin



• Diplopia

A condition in which a single object is perceived as two; also called double vision.