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intraocular pressure

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Also known as IOP

fluid pressure inside the eye

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Encyclopedic overview

A patient in front of a tonometer Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the fluid pressure inside the eye. Tonometry is the method eye care professionals use to determine this. IOP is an important aspect in the evaluation of patients at risk of glaucoma. Most tonometers are calibrated to measure pressure in millimeters of mercury (mmHg).

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “intraocular pressure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.