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CONTACT LENS [2 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

contact lens: an item in the "Personal Gear" class of the "Personal Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

lentille de contact : objet de la classe «Articles personnels» de la catégorie «Objets personnels».

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
DEF

A small, shell-like, bowl-shaped glass or plastic lens that rests directly on the eye, in contact with the cornea or the sclera or both, serving as a new anterior surface of the eye and/or as a retainer for fluid between the cornea and the ... lens, ordinarily to correct for refractive errors of the eye.

CONT

There are two basic types of contact lenses: the scleral lens, which fits over the sclera (white) of the eye, and the corneal lens, which covers only the cornea.

OBS

contact lens: term standardized by ISO in 1986.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
DEF

[...] toute lentille destinée à être portée sur la face antérieure du globe oculaire.

CONT

On distingue deux types de verres de contact : le verre de contact scléral, qui est un grand verre se moulant sur la face antérieure du globe; s'appuyant au pourtour de la cornée et laissant celle-ci dégagée, il isole [...] entre lui et la cornée une lame de liquide; la lentille cornéenne, qui est une petite lentille dont le diamètre est inférieur à celui de la cornée, et qui est maintenue au-devant de la cornée par la tension superficielle du film lacrymal.

OBS

lentille de contact : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO en 1986.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ojo
DEF

Disco pequeño de materia plástica o vidrio, cóncavo de un lado y convexo por el otro, que se aplica directamente sobre la córnea para corregir los defectos de refracción del ojo.

OBS

Lente, término ambiguo no diferenciado, es decir que el significado conceptual se mantiene no importando el género que se use. De acuerdo a la Real Academia Española: “Es válido su uso en ambos géneros en cualquiera de sus acepciones, aunque las preferencias son distintas según las zonas; así, cuando significa "pieza transparente que se emplea en instrumentos ópticos", en España se usa en femenino, mientras que en América alternan ambos géneros, con cierta preferencia por el masculino […]”

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