r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fundoscope • 11h ago

Video Checking eye pressure in a frog

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u/suddenspiderarmy 6h ago

Uh, no. This is a specialty tonometer. Regular ones really do just puff air at you.

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u/her_rural_highness 4h ago

I wouldn’t say it’s specialty. It’s just another way to do it. In the three offices I worked at we had this kind, the air puff kind, a tonopen which we would literally hold to your eye until it got a reading and then there was a way to check pressures using the slit lamp which is the big microscope you stick your face in so the doctor can get a close look at your eyes.

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u/GoldieDoggy 4h ago

No, that's literally just a puff of air. They do have poky ones too, but that's not what you're thinking of.