Definition of Snellen test

1. Noun. A test of visual acuity using a Snellen chart.

Generic synonyms: Run, Test, Trial

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snellen Test

Snake River
Snape
Snares penguin
Snares penguins
Snark
Snead
Sneddon
Sneddon's syndrome
Sneddon-Wilkinson disease
Snell's law
Snellen
Snellen's sign
Snellen's test types
Snellen chart
Snellen test (current term)
Snickers
Snickometer
Snickometers
Sno-cat
Snoopy
Snopes
Snopesed
Snopesing
Snorlax
Snow White
Snow procedure
Snowdon
Snowdonia

Literary usage of Snellen test

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates (1920)
"Place a Snellen test card on the wall at a distance of ten, fourteen, or twenty feet, and devote half a minute a day, or longer, to reading the smallest ..."

2. Sanitation Practically Applied by Harold Bacon Wood (1917)
"For the purpose of advising a child to consult an eye specialist the Snellen test is sufficient. The child is directed to read from a Snellen test card hung ..."

3. School Hygiene by Fletcher Bascom Dresslar (1913)
"Use of the Snellen test Card. — County superintendents should see that every ... The Snellen test card is the standard for testing the acuity of the vision ..."

4. School Hygiene by Fletcher Bascom Dresslar (1913)
"Use of the Snellen test Card. — County superintendents should see that every ... The Snellen test card is the standard for testing the acuity of the vision ..."

5. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"minute angle as empirically accurate, but that is not a Snellen test. The Snellen test lies not only in the size of the letter with its one-minute parts, ..."

6. The Eyesight of school children by J. H. Berkowitz (1920)
".A. The Snellen test types.—The original form devised by Snellen, of Utrecht. ... Literate and illiterate tests; standardization of the Snellen test and the ..."

7. Fundamentals in Elementary Education by Claude Anderson Phillips (1916)
"The Snellen test card may be used successfully by any teacher to determine ... A copy of the Snellen test is provided here, so that it may be taken out and ..."

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