28929-8
Right contact lens prescription Sphere
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Part Description
LP73384-7 Sphere
The sphere is the additional focusing power (as a positive or negative number) needed to focus the visual image on the retina. Negative diopters are required to correct near-sightedness, and positive to correct far-sightedness. The term is named "sphere" to indicate that the correction is applied in all meridians of the eye.
Source: Regenstrief LOINC
Fully-Specified Name
- Component
- Sphere
- Property
- InvLen
- Time
- Pt
- System
- Contact lens.prescription.right
- Scale
- Qn
- Method
Additional Names
- Long Common Name
- Right contact lens prescription Sphere
- Short Name
- R cont lens Rx Sphere
Basic Attributes
- Class
- EYE.CONTACT_LENS
- Type
- Clinical
- First Released
- Version 2.00
- Last Updated
- Version 2.70 (MIN)
Language Variants Get Info
Tag | Language | Translation |
---|---|---|
el-GR | Greek (Greece) | Σφαίρα: Synonyms: InvLen |
es-AR | Spanish (Argentina) | lentes de contacto.prescripción.derecha: |
es-MX | Spanish (Mexico) | Esfera: |
it-IT | Italian (Italy) | Sfera: Synonyms: Lunghezza Inversa Occhio Oftalmologia - lenti a contatto Prescrizione di lente a contatto Destra Punto nel tempo (episodio) |
pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazil) | Esfera: Synonyms: Inverse Length; |
ru-RU | Russian (Russian Federation) | Сфера: Synonyms: Количественный Обратная длина Точка во времени; |
zh-CN | Chinese (China) | 球面: Synonyms: Contact lens variables; |
Example Units
Unit | Source |
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[diop] | Example UCUM Units |
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