Cancer and cancer treatment can make a person more susceptible to infection and increase the risk of gum disease. Alcohol affects oral defense mechanisms. Stress impairs the body's immune response to bacterial invasion.
Magnetometry. Detailed magnetic survey known as magnetometry is an effective and efficient geophysical survey technique used to define areas of past human activity by mapping spatial variations and contrast in the magnetic properties of soil, subsoil and bedrock.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Optometry. Optometry is a health care profession concerned with the health of the eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. Optometrists are trained to prescribe and fit lenses to improve vision, and to diagnose and treat various eye diseases.