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LUNETTES PRISMATIQUES [2 records]

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Record 1 2001-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
CONT

Recumbent spectacles. Prismatic spectacles without sight correction, which angle the field of vision for a supine person, e.g. for reading or watching TV.

OBS

ISO code: 21 03 33.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
CONT

Lunettes pour lire couché. Lunettes prismatiques sans correction de vision avec un angle de champ de vision pour une personne couchée sur le dos, par exemple, pour regarder la télévision.

OBS

Code ISO : 21 03 33.

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Optics
CONT

... when, by practising with prismatic glasses, and varying our eyes' convergence whilst our accommodation remains the same, we learn the direction in which our feeling of the convergence differs from that of the accommodation.

OBS

prismatic glasses: term rarely used in the singular (prismatic glass).

Key term(s)
  • prismatic glass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Optique
CONT

L'adaptation aux lunettes prismatiques permet des progrès spectaculaires. Quand il est demandé au patient de recopier les dessins de la ligne supérieure, il n’ en dessine tout d’abord que la moitié droite. Immédiatement après le port des lunettes prismatiques et surtout deux heures après, ses performances s’améliorent.

OBS

lunette prismatiques : terme rarement utilisé au singulier (lunette prismatique).

Key term(s)
  • lunette prismatique

Spanish

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