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decenter

/de·cen·ter/ (-sen´ter) in optics, to design or make a lens such that the visual axis does not pass through the optical center of the lens.

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Caption: Figure 1 (A) Contact lenses often decentre inferior temporally (blue circle), yet the pupil will often decentre superior nasally (yellow circle), offsetting the optics from the pupil centre; (B) The pupil offset is often subtle, and average decentration of the pupil is usually less than 0.

Facing the perplexing presbyope: This article provides an overview of presbyopic contact lens fitting, and addresses some of the challenges encountered in complex cases, offering simple and advanced approaches to management

The various growing fields of transnational history need scholarship that decentres the US-centric model and expands beyond borders, regions, directions, and peoples that have dominated this field of inquiry.

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