Indirect ophthalmoscope
indirect ophthalmoscope n.
An instrument designed to visualize the interior of the eye, with the instrument at arm’s length from the subject’s eye and the observer viewing an inverted image through a convex lens located between the instrument and the subject’s eye.
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