Resumen

MATIAS CRESPO, Rita M.; VALDES MENENDEZ, Cecilia  y  ALMEIDA URIARTE, Ana Margarita. Glossary of ophthalmology. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.2. ISSN 1729-519X.

This glossary has been made to give medical students, residents, specialists in Ophthalmology as well as health professionals, useful information about ophthalmic terms in the English language. It is a compilation of 212 ophthalmic terms, written in English, alphabetically ordered, with their corresponding meaning in English. We decided to carry out this work because there is a lack of bibliography on this topic. In order to do this, we consulted EFL papers and medical dictionaries, as well as web sites containing information about this topic. We suggest this glossary to be used in all the medical careers, as well as in courses on this specialty, due to the need of mastering the meaning of these terms for the treatment of different diseases.

Palabras clave : Ophthalmic.