LP29918-7
Contact lens
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Description
A contact lens (also known simply as a contact ) is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. Contact lenses usually serve the same corrective purpose as conventional glasses, but are lightweight and virtually invisible many commercial lenses are tinted a faint blue to make them more visible when immersed in cleaning and storage solutions. Cosmetic lenses are deliberately colored for altering the appearance of the eye. It has been estimated that about 125 million people use contact lenses worldwide (2%) , including 28 to 38 million in the United States and 13 million in Japan. The types of lenses used and prescribed vary markedly between countries, with rigid lenses accounting for over 20% of currently-prescribed lenses in Japan, Netherlands and Germany but less than 5% in Scandinavia. People choose to wear contact lenses for various reasons. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Contact lens (Wikipedia)
Basic Part Properties
- Part Name
- Contact lens
- Part Display Name
- Contact lens
- Part Type
- System (Describes the name of the system (sample) type)
- Created On
- 2002-07-29
- Construct for LOINC Short Name
- Cont lens
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Language Variants Get Info
| Tag | Language | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| et-EE | Estonian (Estonia) | LFssF Synonyms: Läätsevedelik |
| es-ES | Spanish (Spain) | Lentes de contacto |
| it-IT | Italian (Italy) | Lenti a contatto |
| tr-TR | Turkish (Turkey) | Kontakt lens |
| ru-RU | Russian (Russian Federation) | Контактная линза |
| nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | contactlens |
| fr-BE | French (Belgium) | Lentilles de contact |
| zh-CN | Chinese (China) | 隐形眼镜 Synonyms: 接触式透镜; |
| fr-FR | French (France) | Lentille de contact |
| pl-PL | Polish (Poland) | soczewka kontaktowa |
| el-GR | Greek (Greece) | Φακός επαφής Synonyms: Φακός επαφής |
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