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vision screening (medicine)


vision screening
Application of tests and examinations to identify visual defects or vision disorders occurring in specific populations, as in school children, the elderly, etc. It is differentiated from vision tests, which are given to evaluate/measure individual visual performance not related to a specific population.


alight(2) (iou)



alight verb intrans. ; pa. pple also alight. OE.
[from A-1 + LIGHT verb1.]
Spring lightly down, dismount, from (or of) a horse; descend from or out of a conveyance. OE.
Clarendon His Majesty alighted out of his Coach. Joyce Our travellers..alighted from their palfreys. B. Pym Elegantly dressed people were alighting from cars.
b. Spring lightly on or upon. LME-E16.
gen. Go or come down. ME-L15.
Get down from a horse or conveyance; land, stop. ME.
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Madam, there is alighted at your gate A young Venetian.
Descend and settle; come to earth from the air. ME.
V. Woolf That moment..when if a feather alight in the scale it will be weighed down. G. Orwell A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away. Times We were about to alight along the centre-line of the runway. fig.: Scott Fitzgerald So far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom.
Descend and strike; fall on or upon, as a blow. arch. ME.
Come by chance on, upon. M19.
S. Gillespie His eye immediately alighted on a Degas.