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The American Academy of Optometry (AAO) is an organization of optometrists based in Orlando, Florida. [1] Its goal is to maintain and enhance excellence in optometric practice, by both promoting research and the dissemination of knowledge.
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Doctors of optometry provide two-thirds of all primary eye care in the United States. Founded in 1898, the AOA is a federation of state, student and armed forces optometric associations. Through these affiliations, the AOA serves members consisting of optometrists, students of optometry, paraoptometric assistants and technicians.
Certain abbreviations are current within the profession of optometry. They are used to denote clinical conditions, examination techniques and findings, and various forms of treatment. They are used to denote clinical conditions, examination techniques and findings, and various forms of treatment.
The term "optometry" comes from the Greek words ὄψις (opsis; "view") and μέτρον (metron; "something used to measure", "measure", "rule").The word entered the language when the instrument for measuring vision was called an optometer, (before the terms phoropter or refractor were used).
Optometry and Vision Science is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal was established in 1924 as the American Journal of Optometry .
Cotter works on the board of directors of the American Academy of Optometry, where she is a diplomate and past chair of the Binocular Vision, Perception, and Pediatric Optometry Section, and a past editorial board member for the academy's journal, "Optometry & Vision Science." [1]
aao, ISO-639-3 code for the Saharan Arabic language; a.a.O., am angegebenen Ort, or Loc. cit. in German publications; Aktionsanalytische Organisation, former Austrian/German commune; America's Army, a computer game series