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English translation: how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ...

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English term or phrase:add power
Selected answer:how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ...
Entered by: liz askew

22:12 Mar 5, 2007
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / ophtalmology
English term or phrase: add power
Determining Add Power

Early presbyopes requiring up to a +2.00 diopter add power should be started with the low add series (L). More advanced presbyopes requiring add power correction should be started with the high add series (H).

what is add power? thank you!!
bg.Linguist
Bulgaria
Local time: 16:47
how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ...
Explanation:
This is an informative site about eye prescriptions.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:g4-4MFARUqMJ:www.myopti...


ADD = how much power gets added to the distance Rx, for your reading-only Rx
or for the bottom half of your bifocals/progressives

Rx = prescription.
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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:47
Grading comment
Thank you all!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +2The optical power of the eye. Link below
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
4 +1how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ...
liz askew


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
The optical power of the eye. Link below


Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioptre

Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 15:47
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 27

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elena Aleksandrova
8 hrs
neutral  Tony M: It's not really 'of the eye', but of the correction to be made
11 hrs
agree  Pham Huu Phuoc
14 hrs
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
how much power gets added to the distance prescription, for your reading-only prescription, or ...


Explanation:
This is an informative site about eye prescriptions.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:g4-4MFARUqMJ:www.myopti...


ADD = how much power gets added to the distance Rx, for your reading-only Rx
or for the bottom half of your bifocals/progressives

Rx = prescription.

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:47
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 88
Grading comment
Thank you all!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes, of course, Liz! You're spot on, my answer (now hidden) only went part way...
17 hrs
  -> Thanks for your support!
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