Whois & Analysis for aao.org

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) is a professional medical association of ophthalmologists.

It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Its membership of 32,000 medical doctors includes more than 90 percent of practicing ophthalmologists in the United States as well as over 7,000 members abroad.

The human eye is an organ which reacts to light and pressure.

As a sense organ, the mammalian eye allows vision.

Human eyes help provide a three dimensional, moving image, normally coloured in daylight.

Rod and cone cells in the retina allow conscious light perception and vision including color differentiation and the perception of depth.

The human eye can differentiate between about 10 million colors and is possibly capable of detecting a single photon.

Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum reflected by the objects in the environment.

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research.

Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, but learners may also educate themselves.

Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational.

The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy.

A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice.

Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines (such as anatomy and physiology) underlying diseases and their treatment—the science of medicine—and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or craft of medicine.