Stenopaeic

Quick meaning: Stenopaeic is an adjective meaning (optics) Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.

Meaning

(optics) Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.

Example Sentences

These patients were selected retrospectively, and only those treated with complete bed-rest and stenopaeic spectacles alone were accepted.

Stenopaeic slit refraction is usually attempted when retinoscopy and more conventional subjective refractive techniques, i.e. JCC and FC, fail to provide satisfactory results.

By contrast, the more aquatic sea lion eye is emmetropic in water and depends upon a flattened cornea and stenopaeic aperture for the formation of a good image in air (WALLs, 1942; SCHUSTERMAN, 1972).

Prof. Danders has lately devised "stenopic spectacles," based on the principle of excluding the rays of light from the opacity, and admitting their entrance through a small opening in a glass, or any other suitable material held close to the eye and darkened on its posterior wall, thus to admit behind it the greatest possible enlargement of the pupil.

Word Forms

• stenopaic
• stenopeic

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slit, scioptric, optological, optometrical, optometric, optique.

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