Retinoscopes

Announcement

You can now add alternative names! Click here to add other names that you've published under.

"Retinoscopes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

Instruments for RETINOSCOPY that determines the refractive state of the EYE, such as the degree of NEARSIGHTEDNESS; FARSIGHTEDNESS; or ASTIGMATISM. In principle, a retinoscope provides a light source to illuminate the RETINA, and then locates the aerial image of the retina in space to obtain an index of the refractive quality of the patient's lens system.

Descriptor ID	D042261
MeSH Number(s)	E07.230.540.500
Concept/Terms	Retinoscopes Retinoscopes Retinoscope

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Retinoscopes".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Equipment and Supplies [E07]
Diagnostic Equipment [E07.230]
Ophthalmoscopes [E07.230.540]
Retinoscopes [E07.230.540.500]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Retinoscopes".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Retinoscopes".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Retinoscopes" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Retinoscopes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.