Organ or Tissue Function
visual accommodation
vis·u·al ac·com·mo·da·tion
Subclass of:
Ocular Physiological Phenomena
Definitions related to visual accommodation:
  • (eye accommodation) Adjustment of the lens of the eye for various distances.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (accommodation, ocular) The dioptric adjustment of the EYE (to attain maximal sharpness of retinal imagery for an object of regard) referring to the ability, to the mechanism, or to the process. Ocular accommodation is the effecting of refractive changes by changes in the shape of the CRYSTALLINE LENS. Loosely, it refers to ocular adjustments for VISION, OCULAR at various distances. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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