{"id":18894,"date":"2019-01-09T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18894"},"modified":"2019-01-09T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:52:11","slug":"word-of-the-day-440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/09\/word-of-the-day-440\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Keratometer<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>keratometer<\/b>, also known as an\u00a0<b>ophthalmometer<\/b>, is a diagnostic instrument for measuring the curvature of the anterior surface of the\u00a0<a title=\"Cornea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornea\">cornea<\/a>, particularly for assessing the extent and axis of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Astigmatism (eye)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astigmatism_(eye)\">astigmatism<\/a>. It was invented by the\u00a0<a title=\"Germans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germans\">German<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Physiologist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physiologist\">physiologist<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Hermann von Helmholtz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_von_Helmholtz\">Hermann von Helmholtz<\/a>\u00a0in 1851, although an earlier model was developed in 1796 by\u00a0<a title=\"Jesse Ramsden\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesse_Ramsden\">Jesse Ramsden<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Everard Home\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everard_Home\">Everard Home<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keratometer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Used on my Arts Editor yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keratometer: A\u00a0keratometer, also known as an\u00a0ophthalmometer, is a diagnostic instrument for measuring the curvature of the anterior surface of the\u00a0cornea, particularly for assessing the extent and axis of\u00a0astigmatism. It was invented by the\u00a0German\u00a0physiologist\u00a0Hermann von Helmholtz\u00a0in 1851, although an earlier model was developed in 1796 by\u00a0Jesse Ramsden\u00a0and\u00a0Everard Home. [Wikipedia] Used on \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/09\/word-of-the-day-440\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18895,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18894\/revisions\/18895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}